Motivational Quotes

Life

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Life

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Isherwood, Christopher

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Angelou, Maya

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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 offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Hayes, Helen

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

Ovid

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

42.

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

Gable, Clark

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Socrates

45.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Michelangelo

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo