Motivational Quotes

Life

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

May, Rollo

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

Proverb, Persian

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

10.

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

Simon, Neil

11.

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

12.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

13.

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

Mountain, Marian

14.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

17.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

18.

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 what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

20.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

21.

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

Isaac Asimov

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

23.

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

Harington, Donald

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

27.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

29.

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

Dawson, Roger

30.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

33.

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 a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

35.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

42.

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

Ovid

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

49.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van