Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Best Quotes about Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jordan, David Starr

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Cousteau, Jacques

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Platen

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robert Heinlein

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

28.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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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

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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 not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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