Motivational Quotes

Life

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

- Boese, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schmaltz, David A.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Blake, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Baluch, Joy

28.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

38.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

McMillan, Terry

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Southey, Robert