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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Santayana, George

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Larkin, Philip

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven