Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Socrates

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Brendan Gill

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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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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

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques