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

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

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

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

Boese, Paul

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

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

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

Hume, David

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

Robbins, Anthony

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Norman Thomas

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Broun, Heywood

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

38.

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

Erhard, Werner

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.