Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Camus, Albert

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.