Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Socrates

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

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Cioran, E. M.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Calhoun, John C.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fran Lebowitz

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Leno, Jay

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

Moses, Grandma

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.