Motivational Quotes

Life

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Life

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Russell, Bertrand

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Byron, Lord

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh