Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Byron, Lord

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.