Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fields, W. C.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Dane, Frank

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

Miller, Henry

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Baluch, Joy

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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]

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Ben Stein

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

Hume, David

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Santaguida, Paul

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Burns, George

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

Pliny The Elder

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

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