Motivational Quotes

Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

William Shakespeare

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

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

Truman Capote

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.