Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Linkletter, Art

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

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

Truman Capote

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

John Lennon

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur