Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Douglas, Michael

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Oprah Winfrey

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

James, William

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Socrates

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Camus, Albert

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

Feidelson, Charles

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

36.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Shields, Carol