Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Truman Capote

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Presser, Ross

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Hayes, Helen

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst