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

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Conrad, Joseph

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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

19.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

33.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Coallier, Steven

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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