Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

- Dorgan, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Dickens, Charles

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

10.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

11.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

12.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

13.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

14.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

William Shakespeare

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

18.

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

Leno, Jay

19.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

21.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Welsh, John

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

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

Piatt, Don

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

41.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

45.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

46.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

48.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og