Motivational Quotes

Life

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

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

Camus, Albert

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Wright, Steven

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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 gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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 a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Keller, Helen

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Socrates

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David