Motivational Quotes

Life

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Life

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Carlyle, Thomas

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Santayana, George

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel