Motivational Quotes

Life

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Life

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

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Broun, Heywood

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Leno, Jay

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Giles, Henry

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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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

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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 a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.