Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Facult, F. Paul

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

48.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

50.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von