Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Newman, Peter C.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Broun, Heywood

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Socrates

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Austen, Jane

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb