top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Motivation quotes
"Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction."
"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes."
"Find the willpower to begin work."
"Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement."
"Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness."
"Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play as well."
"Dare to make major changes to reach your newly discovered destiny."
"Look onwards to what lies ahead."
"You may be tempted to regret being born when you are made to watch the videos of just what you will go through to achieve your dreams... But you are highly likely to wish you can live and live again and again if the size of your purposeful achievements is shown to you! Live on!"
"The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses."
Explore more quotes by Yann Martel
"You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better."
"To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken."
"Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer."
"When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival."
"What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?"
"The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I have seen that smile with my own eyes. I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at a sloth in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings whose intense imaginative lives were beyond the reach of scientific probing."
"Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap."
"For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart."
bottom of page