Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kempis, Thomas

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

McMillan, Terry

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.