Motivational Quotes

Life

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Life

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Caesar, Sid

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heath, David M.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

William Shakespeare

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

William Shakespeare

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

James, William