Motivational Quotes

Life

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Life

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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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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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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

32.

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

Piatt, Don

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dante Alighieri

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz