Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Heath, David M.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Moses, Grandma

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Hume, David

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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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

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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 at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Live poor so you can die rich.