Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Life

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Gurney, Robert

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Heath, David M.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas