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

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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