Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes
MenuLife is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it,
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it.
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel but a comedy for those who think.” –Horace Walpole
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” –Napoleon Hill
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” –Ernest Hemingway
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But, it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!” – movie quote: “Rocky Balboa”
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” –Maria Robinson
“It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” – Theodor Roosevelt
“Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.” –Marcus Aurelius
“If you don’t follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.” –Burt Munro
“A temptation resisted is a true measure of character.” –Pappilon
“Whoso must be a man, must be a non-conformist.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t fight a fact, deal with it. ” –Hugh Prather
“It is not in the nature of man—nor of any living entity—to start out by giving up, by spitting in one’s own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lose it. Then all of these vanish in the vast swamp of their elders who tell them persistently that maturity consists of abandoning one’s mind; security, of abandoning one’s values; practicality, of losing self-esteem. Yet a few hold on and move on, knowing that the fire is not to be betrayed, learning how to give it shape, purpose and reality. But whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man’s nature and of life’s potential.” –Ayn Rand
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crown less again shall be king.” –J.R.R Tolkien
“The burned hand teaches best.” –J.R.R.Tolkien
“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.” –Richard Bach
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” –Richard Bach
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid doing entirely.” – Anonymous
“Never do anything that you wouldn’t want to explain to the paramedics.” – Anonymous
“It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.” – Anonymous
“Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.” – Anonymous
“When every thing’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.” – Anonymous
“When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.” – Anonymous
“Life is just a phase you’re going through…you’ll get over it.” – Anonymous
“You can’t have everything….where would you put it?” – Anonymous
“If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.” – Anonymous
“An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, ‘So far so good!” – Anonymous
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” – Mark Twain
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.” – Woody Allen
“For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.” – Clifton Fadiman
“Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.” – Lou Erickso
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” – William Shakespeare
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” – Will Rogers
“Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.” – Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
“Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.” – Sam Ewing
“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.” – Charles Schulz
– “A finished person is a boring person.” – Anna Quindlen
– “A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.” – Mary Wesley
– “A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.” – Franz Kafka
– “Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.” – Steven Morrissey
– “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” – Chuck Palahniuk
– “All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I’d like them to say, Carol’s basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol’s kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.” – Carol Moseley Braun
– “American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.” – Sid Vicious
– “An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.” – Bette Davis
– “An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.” – Charles de Montesquieu
– “An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.” – Roald Dahl
– “And some poets are far better read off the page because they’re very bad speakers. I’m thinking of one in particular whom I won’t name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.” – Norman MacCaig
– “And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.” – Richard Attenborough
– “Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you’ve got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn’t call it gestural crap.” – Morton Feldman
– “Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.” – Hilaire Belloc
– “Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.” – Dave Barry
– “Basically, my life is so boring, it’s embarrassing.” – Hugh Grant
– “Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she’s beautiful but don’t have anything to talk about, it’s going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.” – Amanda Peet
– “Beauty without expression is boring.” – Waldo Emerson
– “Boring people are a reflection of boring people.” – Douglas Horton
– “Brittany Murphy… who knows if she’s going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she’s really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.” – Jackie Collins
“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.” – Tom Hanks
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“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please. ” – Will Rogers
“A half truth is a whole lie.”- Yiddish Proverb
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” – Cynthia Nelms
“Opportunities are like sunsets. If you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward
“What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.”- Mark Twain
“An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.”- Robert Oppenheimer
“The more that learn to read, the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.” – Will Rogers
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” – Confucius
