Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Barrymore, John

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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 is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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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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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Welsh, John

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Michelangelo

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Dryden, John

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin