Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

- Grammer, Kelsey

Best Quotes about Life

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

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isaac Asimov

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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