Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

- Schmaltz, David A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Mark Hodder

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Ovid

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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