Motivational Quotes

Life

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Ward, William A.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Coriolanus III

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman