Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dead-end street.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carson, Rachel

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

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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 a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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 finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Larkin, Philip

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Wright, Steven

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.