Inspirational Life Quotes

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
~Charles Schulz

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
~Woody Allen

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
~Charles Darwin

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
~ John Keats

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
~ Tenzin Gyatso, his Holiness the Dalai Lama

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~Socrates

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third
~ Marge Piercy

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice
~ Kahlil Gibran


Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
~Lisa Hoffman


Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
~Woody Allen

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
~Voltaire

The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.
~Omar Khyyam


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

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
~Stephen Covey

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
~Thomas Fuller


The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
~Lilly Tomlin

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
~The Talmud

Attitude Quotes about Life

Some Life quotes on Attitude:

Attitude Quote 1:
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
~Hubert Humphrey

Attitude Quote 2:
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~George Santayana

Attitude Quote 3:
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
~Scott Hamilton

Attitude Quote 4:
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
~Annette Goodheart

Attitude Quote 5:
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~Confucius



Attitude Quote 6:
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
~Winston Churchill

Attitude Quote 7:
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
~Voltaire

Attitude Quote 8:
Misery is a communicable disease.
~Martha Graham

Attitude Quote 9:
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire


Attitude Quote 10:
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
~William James

Adversity Quotes about Life

Some quotes and sayings on Adversity

Adversity Quote #1:
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

Adversity Quote #2:
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

Adversity Quote #3:
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
~Yiddish Proverb

Adversity Quote #4:
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Adversity Quote #5:
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
~Confucius

Adversity Quote #6:
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~Kenji Miyazawa

Adversity Quote #7:
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
~William Hazlitt

Adversity Quote #8:
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
~Walt Schmid

Adversity Quote #9:
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity Quote #10:
There is no education like adversity.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Adversity Quote #11:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~Virginia Woolf