Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

- Mark Hodder

Best Quotes about Life

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

Leno, Jay

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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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

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Santaguida, Paul