Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- McMillan, Terry

Best Quotes about Life

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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 optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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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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 bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

William Shakespeare

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dane, Frank

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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's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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 a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver