Motivational Quotes

Life

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Simon, Neil

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robert Heinlein

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.