Motivational Quotes

Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

- Nisami

Best Quotes about Life

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

Wise, Alfonso The

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Epicurus

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Billings, Josh

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

41.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Caesar, Sid