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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kornfield, Jack

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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 zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Dimnet, Ernest

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rogers, Carl

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Wright, Steven

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Hayes, Helen

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green