Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Pliny The Elder

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

47.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno