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

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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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

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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 tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Keller, Helen

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.