Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Butler, Samuel

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Rivarol, Antoine

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James, William

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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