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

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Coriolanus III

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

Cioran, E. M.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Horace

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ovid

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Propp Jr., Fred