Motivational Quotes

Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sir Winston Churchill

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Norris, Kathleen

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Presser, Ross

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

Aristotle

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.