Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Life

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Cabell, James Branch

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.