Motivational Quotes

Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

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Best Quotes about Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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.