Motivational Quotes

Life

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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 is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

18.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

19.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Gurney, Robert

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

29.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

30.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

31.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

33.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

34.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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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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)

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

42.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

46.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean