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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