Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Life

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

Presser, Ross

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Blackie, Professor

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

James, William

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

Ovid

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Socrates

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, 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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.