Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

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

Newman, Peter C.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Feidelson, Charles

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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.

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

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.