Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Caesar, Sid

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Piatt, Don

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

William Shakespeare

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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 constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Norris, Kathleen