Motivational Quotes

Life

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

- Gables, Anne Of Green

Best Quotes about Life

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Boese, Paul

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Aristotle

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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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 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

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Pliny The Elder

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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 short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Camus, Albert