Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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 like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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 old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

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

Hume, David

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Propp Jr., Fred