Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to learn German.

- Porson, R.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Mark Hodder

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Lennon, John

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

Proverb, Persian

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.