Motivational Quotes

Life

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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 short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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 fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michelangelo

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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