Quotes tagged with 'life'

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that Goddamn mountain.
—Jack Kerouac life travel

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
—Søren Kierkegaard life philosophy

Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase.
—Martin Luther King life

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much and the other is by desiring little.
—Jackie French Koller life

The man show asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
—Confucius Kǒngzǐ life philosophy

And time, the most precious commodity of all, far more valuable than gold, has been devalued as people are forced to squander it in a terribly backward equation - trading it for money. Just how crazy is that? Who, when their allotment of time is all but spent, would not trade every bit of gold for just a fraction more time?
—John Kretschmer life philosophy sailing

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
—Elisabeth Kubler Ross death life

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including yourself.
—Anne Lamott health life

When you find yourself in a room surrounded by your enemies you should tell yourself 'I am not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.' This is the kind of mindset you should have if you want to succeed in life. Get rid of that victim mentality.
—Bruce Lee life

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering
—Bruce Lee life philosophy

Instead of buying your children the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught.
—Bruce Lee life

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus; and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
—Bruce Lee life philosophy

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
—Bruce Lee life philosophy

Never forget that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
—Max Lerner government life

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
—Stephen Levy life

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
—C. S. Lewis life

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
—C. S. Lewis life

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
—C. S. Lewis freedom life

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
—C. S. Lewis freedom life

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
—C. S. Lewis life philosophy