Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Canetti, Elias

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Cook, Robert A.

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

William Goldman

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

29.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Rogers, Carl

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Samuel Butler

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Cousteau, Jacques