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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Carson, Rachel

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Dryden, John

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Socrates

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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

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

John Lennon

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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

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.