Motivational Quotes

Life

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Heath, David M.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coallier, Steven

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Caesar, Sid

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Dryden, John

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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 an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean