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

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

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

James, William

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Powell, Robert

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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 game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph