Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

2.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

3.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

4.

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

5.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

6.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

7.

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

8.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

9.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Temple, Sir William

12.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

13.

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

Burns, George

14.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

15.

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

Robert Heinlein

16.

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

17.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

18.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

22.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

23.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

25.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

27.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

28.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

29.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

30.

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

31.

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

Berenson, Bernard

32.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

33.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

37.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

38.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.