If you read my work often, or heck if you just check out the title of the blog, you know that I value the pursuit of life success. And, if you’ve read my work often, you know success rarely has anything to do with money, fame or power. These aren’t the only such quotes from history, but these are some of the good ones that drive my life. I hope one of them speaks to you as well.
“May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
“Every man dies, not every man really lives.” –William Wallace, from the movie Braveheart
SULPICIUS SEVERUS wrote a biography on St. Martin of Tours saying this, “Death could not defeat him nor toil dismay him. He was quite without a preference of his own; he neither feared to die nor refused to live.”
“The worst of all fears is the fear of living.” An Autobiography, 1913–Theodore Roosevelt
“I think it is better to risk my life and to be a “has been” than to never have been at all. Even though crippled and busted in half, it has been better to take a chance to win a victory or suffer defeat than to live like others do who will never know a victory or defeat because they have had not the guts to try either.” Evel Knievel