Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

- Grammer, Kelsey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hayes, Helen

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

11.

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

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

19.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Seneca

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Making a life comes before making a living.

28.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Presser, Ross

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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.

39.

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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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