Motivational Quotes

Life

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

- Sizoo, Joseph R.

Best Quotes about Life

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Horton, Doug

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

Billings, Josh

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Mountain, Marian

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Pope John XXIII

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.