Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Blackie, Professor

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

May, Rollo

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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 like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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 gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Hayes, Helen

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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