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 is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Baluch, Joy

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.