I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

My life is a struggle.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

There is no wealth but life.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

It is always your next move.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.