Motivational Quotes

Life

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

- Stark, Freya

Best Quotes about Life

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

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.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

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

Camus, Albert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Welsh, John

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.