Motivational Quotes

Life

All that man has will he give for his life.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

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

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

10.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

15.

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

Heath, David M.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live poor so you can die rich.

22.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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.

27.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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