Motivational Quotes

Life

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

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

Socrates

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Markiewicz, William

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Hayes, Helen

10.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

11.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

12.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

13.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

15.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

16.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Markham, Edwin

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Proverb, Indian

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

29.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

30.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

32.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul