Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. Plato's famous account of the trial and death of Socrates.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

If my life is to be prolonged now, I know that I must live out my old age, seeing worse, hearing less, learning with more difficulty, and forgetting more and more of what I have learned. If I see myself growing worse and reproach myself for it, tell me, how could I continue to live pleasantly? Perhaps even the god in his kindness is offering to end my life not only at the right time, but also in the easiest way possible... Plato's famous account of the trial and death of Socrates.

So now, Athenian men, more than on my own behalf must I defend myself, as some may think, but on your behalf, so that you may not make a mistake concerning the gift of god by condemning me. For if you kill me, you will not easily find another such person at all, even if to say in a ludicrous way, attached on the city by the god, like on a large and well-bred horse, by its size and laziness both needing arousing by some gadfly; in this way the god seems to have fastened me on the city, some such one who arousing and persuading and reproaching each one of you I do not stop the whole day settling down all over. Thus such another will not easily come to you, men, but if you believe me, you will spare me; but perhaps you might possibly be offended, like the sleeping who are awakened, striking me, believing Anytus, you might easily kill, then the rest of your lives you might continue sleeping, unless the god caring for you should send you another. Plato's famous account of the trial and death of Socrates.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed