Quotes tagged with 'life'

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Alexander Lukashenko / President of Belarus life

There are moments that define a person’s whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.
—Jonathan Maberry / Tales of Rot and Ruin life

You think you're walking thorough the darkness. Not realizing you are a light for those walking beside you.
—Stacie Martin life

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
—W. Somerset Maugham life

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
—Christopher Mc Candless life sailing

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
—H. L. Mencken life sailing

No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
—Maya Mendoza freedom life

You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when no one wants you to answer it.
—Josephus Miller / The Expanse (James S.A. Corey) government life

At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words 'fuck off' much more frequently.
—Helen Mirren life

If your path demands you to walk through hell, walk as though you own the place.
—Jason Momoa life

Role models are important.
—Officer ALEX J. Murphy / RoboCopy life

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
—Miyamoto Musashi life

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
—Elon Musk life

Every man has a train of thought on which he travels when he is alone. The dignity and nobility of his life, as well as his happiness, depend on the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and scenery through which it travels.
—Joesph Fort Newton life

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.
—Friedrich Nietzsche goverment life

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
—Friedrich Nietzsche life

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
—Anaïs Nin life

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
—Anaïs Nin freedom life

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
—Anaïs Nin life

If you limit yourself only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
—Anaïs Nin life