Motivational Quotes

Life

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Robbins, Anthony

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hewitt, George T.

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 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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Barrymore, John

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

James, William

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Giles, Henry

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey