Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

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

Samuel Butler

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heath, David M.

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Butler, Samuel

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.