Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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 grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

May, Rollo

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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 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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin