Motivational Quotes

Life

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dryden, John

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Camus, Albert

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fields, W. C.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.