Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

- Grammer, Kelsey

Best Quotes about Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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 like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Camus, Albert

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

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Harington, Donald

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Shields, Carol

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

McMillan, Terry

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Michelangelo

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry