Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Piatt, Don

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Cousteau, Jacques

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shields, Carol

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickens, Charles

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.