Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Linkletter, Art

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Butler, Philip

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

McMillan, Terry

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Coriolanus III

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Wright, Steven

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.