Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Proverb, Persian

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Dimnet, Ernest

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Antrim, Minna

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

11.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

18.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

20.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

21.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

25.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Newman, Peter C.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

32.

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

Steve Jobs

33.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

34.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

37.

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

Blake, William

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

41.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

42.

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

Moses, Grandma

43.

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

Feidelson, Charles

44.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

45.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

46.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

48.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

49.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

50.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson