Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Camus, Albert

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Hume, David

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Ben Stein