Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

- Grammer, Kelsey

Best Quotes about Life

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Augustine, St.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

28.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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 a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition