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.

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

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

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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