Motivational Quotes

Life

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Billings, Josh

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

William Shakespeare

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

19.

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

Proverb, Persian

20.

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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

27.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

40.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis 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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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!