Motivational Quotes

Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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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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 essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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 about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Austen, Jane

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo