Motivational Quotes

Life

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bacon, Francis

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

James, William

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Aleichem, Sholom

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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