Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Butler, Philip

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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.

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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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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

18.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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 place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Wickett, Michael

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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