Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Dante Alighieri

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Nouwen, Henri

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

Lennon, John

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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.

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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 has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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 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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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Hayes, Helen

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.