Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

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.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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 is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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 supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey