Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- McMillan, Terry

Best Quotes about Life

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Cabell, James Branch

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De