Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, German

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor