Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

- Henry J. Tillman

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Ciardi, John

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.

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

Calhoun, John C.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

11.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

18.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Lamartine, Alphonse 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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Wright, Steven

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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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell