Life

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves – to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. - Stewart B. Johnson

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. - Marcus Aurelius

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The life of a man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you do get. - Terence

The Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. - Henry Adams

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. - Aristotle

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. - Ben Nicholas

The afternoon of life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning. - Carl Jung