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

Isaac Asimov

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Presser, Ross

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Menander of Athens

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

McMillan, Terry