Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Sheen, Fulton John

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Ben Stein

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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

11.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Making a life comes before making a living.

28.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

40.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

42.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Presser, Ross

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean