Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

- Walpole, Horace

Best Quotes about Life

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Baluch, Joy

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Proverb, Indian

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Lebowitz, Fran