Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

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.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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 mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fieldes, Christopher