Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Life

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hume, David

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

Samuel Butler

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Hayes, Helen

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Making a life comes before making a living.

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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 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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Markiewicz, William

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor