Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Heath, David M.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.