Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Platen

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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 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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Gable, Clark

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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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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

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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 dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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 is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wright, Steven

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Blackie, Professor

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph