Quotes by Philosophers - Page 21

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that.
Epictetus
One should count each day a separate life.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Publilius Syrus
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Epictetus
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Elbert Hubbard
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyère
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Emile Littre
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus
Our costliest expenditure is time.
Theophrastus
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
Albert Camus
Nothing is ours except time.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Henry David Thoreau
He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
Horace
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
Jean de La Bruyère
We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Horace
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
Horace
Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
The eye is the jewel of the body.
Henry David Thoreau
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They laboriously do nothing.
Seneca
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Pascal
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Michel Montaigne
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
Douglas V. Steere
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
Alcmaeon
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Live with no time out.
Simone de Beauvoir
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
G.K. Chesterton
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Lucretius
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.
Paul Valéry