Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to learn German.

- Porson, R.

Best Quotes about Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Lennon, John

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

John Lennon

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Wickett, Michael

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

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Field, Joanna

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

Austen, Jane

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Burns, George