Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Miller, Henry

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Hanks, Tom

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

John Lennon

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.