Motivational Quotes

Life

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

- Shinn, Florence Scovel

Best Quotes about Life

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Seneca

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Welsh, John

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

Camus, Albert

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Antrim, Minna

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

41.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar