Motivational Quotes

Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Linkletter, Art

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Horace

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Camus, Albert

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph