Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

- Grammer, Kelsey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Alacia Bessette

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Angelou, Maya

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Duncan, Isadora

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Dawson, Roger

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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