Motivational Quotes

Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

- Leno, Jay

Best Quotes about Life

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Samuel Butler

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry