Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Best Quotes about Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Dickens, Charles

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean