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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

13.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

19.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

20.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony