Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

10.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

11.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

16.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

19.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Southey, Robert

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

28.

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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

30.

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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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

38.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

39.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wolfe, Thomas