Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Mountain, Marian

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Socrates

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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.