Quotes by Philosophers - Page 30

Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!
Theodore Haecker
A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Nicolas de Chamfort
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
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