Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

12.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Michelangelo

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

Dawson, Roger

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

35.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

37.

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

Hume, David

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

46.

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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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