“An honest man is always a child.”
Socrates · attributed
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
Socrates · attributed
“Be as you wish to seem.”
Socrates · attributed
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices.”
Lionel Messi
“My family always supported me and helped me to get where I am today.”
Lionel Messi
“Something I learned over the years: you have to listen to the people who know.”
Lionel Messi
“I have fun like a child in the street. When this stops happening, it will be time to leave football.”
Lionel Messi
“I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”
Lionel Messi
“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”
Lionel Messi
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854; recited by the Dead Poets Society club
“Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard · The Writing Life, 1989
