Motivational Quotes

Life

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

- Barbara Hall

Best Quotes about Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Hume, David

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

47.

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

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord