Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

- Sheen, Fulton John

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Simon, Neil

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Menander of Athens

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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

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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 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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Proverb, Persian

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.