Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

10.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

11.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

15.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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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

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

Brendan Gill

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kant, Immanuel

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Proverb, Persian

30.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

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.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

39.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

41.

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 real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson