Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Thibodeau, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

29.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Making a life comes before making a living.

31.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Proverb, Indian

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt