Motivational Quotes

Life

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Broun, Heywood

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Barrymore, John

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly