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's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Clark, Frank A.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Coallier, Steven

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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 is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice