Motivational Quotes

Life

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Santayana, George

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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 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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.