Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

- Tremain, Rose

Best Quotes about Life

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Coriolanus III

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Samuel Butler

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

Ovid

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Truman Capote

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley