Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Life

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Linkletter, Art

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Camus, Albert

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Horace

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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