Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Hewitt, George T.

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Hume, David

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

Feidelson, Charles

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

14.

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

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

16.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

19.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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 slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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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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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

30.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

32.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

33.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

34.

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

Duncan, Isadora

35.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

39.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

48.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.