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

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

William Shakespeare

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pritchett, V. S.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hanks, Tom

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Live poor so you can die rich.