Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Stoppard, Tom

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Dryden, John

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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 is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.