Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Benet, Stephen Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Ward, William A.

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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.

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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

11.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Duncan, Isadora

18.

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

Butler, Philip

19.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

20.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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 true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

32.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

45.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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