Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Pliny The Elder

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

21.

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

Broun, Heywood

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

33.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Butler, Philip

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Baluch, Joy

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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 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.