Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cook, Robert A.

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

10.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

11.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

12.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Aristotle

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

23.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Boese, Paul

28.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

31.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

39.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

40.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

41.

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

Duncan, Isadora

43.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Foreman, George

49.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton