Motivational Quotes

Life

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Bible

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Blake, William

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Hume, David

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

42.

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Dane, Frank

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas