Motivational Quotes

Life

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

- Nee, Watchman

Best Quotes about Life

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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 is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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 series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

32.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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