Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Walpole, Horace

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Making a life comes before making a living.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Herold, Don

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.