Motivational Quotes

Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

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

Blackie, Professor

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Shields, Carol

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Platen

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Socrates

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Feidelson, Charles

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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 our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Gellert

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