Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Giles, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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

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

Shields, Carol

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Ovid

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Bacon, Francis

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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