Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Truman Capote

Best Quotes about Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Forster, Edward M.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

William Shakespeare

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.