Motivational Quotes

Life

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

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

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Woody Allen

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Dawson, Roger

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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

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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 -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Byron, Lord

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

Steve Jobs

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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]

Bible

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Pliny The Elder

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way