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

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Broun, Heywood

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Allen, Fred A.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.