Motivational Quotes

Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Allen, Fred A.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Baluch, Joy

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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.