Motivational Quotes

Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Kempton, Murray

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

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

10.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Landers, Ann

12.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

19.

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

20.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Crisp, Quentin

25.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

30.

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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Byron, Lord

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

42.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

44.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker