Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Shields, Carol

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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 is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Santayana, George

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Coallier, Steven

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Simon, Neil

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy