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

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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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 a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Butler, Philip

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Blackie, Professor

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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 used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles