Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

- Mark Hodder

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd