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

Making a life comes before making a living.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Live poor so you can die rich.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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 a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

35.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green