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

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

Temple, Sir William

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Duncan, Isadora

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr