Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Gable, Clark

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

Proverb, Scottish

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Landers, Ann

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

Dickens, Charles

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.