Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Dawson, Roger

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Harington, Donald

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

Moses, Grandma

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Santayana, George

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.