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

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Leno, Jay

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Simon, Neil

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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 pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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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

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd