Motivational Quotes

Life

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Life

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Ovid

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Hayes, Helen

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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 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

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell