Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

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

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

Russell, Lady R.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Santaguida, Paul

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

30.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mark Hodder

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.