Motivational Quotes

Life

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bible

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Socrates

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, 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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Giles, Henry

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wright, Steven

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare