Motivational Quotes

Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Santayana, George

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill