Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Young, J. Z.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Wright, Steven

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.