Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

12.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

13.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

21.

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

Socrates

22.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

24.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

25.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

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.

27.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

28.

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

Carson, Rachel

29.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

31.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

32.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

34.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

45.

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

46.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

50.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas