Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Kennedy, John F.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Carson, Rachel

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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 a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Foreman, George

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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

Young, J. Z.