Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Linkletter, Art

Best Quotes about Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Santayana, George

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

William Shakespeare

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Calhoun, John C.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Carson, Johnny

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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