Motivational Quotes

Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Best Quotes about Life

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Feidelson, Charles

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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

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

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.