Motivational Quotes

Life

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Proverb, Persian

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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

Cabell, James Branch

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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

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.