Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 17
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
Paul Gauguin
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant Frazier
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
Professor Blackie
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.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
Les Brown
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
T S Eliot
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Hugh Prather
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
Life: The way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
Rafikki to Simba in The Lion King
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg
Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Marcus Aurelius
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Georges Carpentier
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
Alexander Herzen
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman
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