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

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

Socrates

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

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

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

12.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Michelangelo

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

18.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

31.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

32.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

33.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

39.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Walpole, Horace

45.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Half my life is an act of revision.