Motivational Quotes

Life

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Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mark Hodder

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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 pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Byron, Lord

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.