Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Butler, Philip

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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