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

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

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 best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Wright, Steven

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Baluch, Joy

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Larkin, Philip

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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