Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Schmaltz, David A.

Best Quotes about Life

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maclaren, Alexander

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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.

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

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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

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

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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

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

Welsh, John

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard