Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Steve Jobs

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Fields, W. C.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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 world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh