Motivational Quotes

Life

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Dickens, Charles

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

McMillan, Terry

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Shields, Carol

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.