Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

- Schmaltz, David A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Ovid

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Pepper, Claude D.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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 a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques