Motivational Quotes

Life

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

- McMillan, Terry

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dante Alighieri

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Linkletter, Art

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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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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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 a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia