Timeless Wisdom: Famous Quotes From Ancient Poets

Seize the day, put no
trust in the morrow.
~Horace

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We are twice armed
if we fight with faith.
~Plato

Be brave, and rise superior to
your sorrows, and maintain a
spirit that cannot be broken.
~Ovid

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First say what you would be,
then do what you have to do.
~Epictetus

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Let him that would move
the world, first move himself.
~Socrates

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We become brave
by doing brave acts.
~Aristotle

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The lively power of his mind prevailed
and forth he marched far beyond the
heavens as he traversed the immeasurable
universe in thought and imagination.
~Lucretius

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The hour is ripe and
yonder lies the way.
~Virgil

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The mind contains all possibilities.
~Guatama Buddha

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It is the character of a brave and
resolute man not to ruffled by
adversity and not to desert his post.
~Cicero

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Be still my heart, thou hast
known worse than this.
~Homer

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As within, so without.
~Hermessianex
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Begin your work!
~Ausonius
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Who can tell what
is good or bad luck?
~Zen Saying

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They are able because
they think they are able.

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Our plans miscarry because they
have no aim. When a man does
not know what harbor he is making
for, no wind is the right wind.

Great is the height I must scale, but
the prospect of glory gives me strength.
~Propertius

But this I say, brethren,
the time is short.
~I Corinthians 7:29

Fortune and love
befriend the bold.
~Ovid

Let us go singing as far as we go:
the road will be less tedious.
~Virgil

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Learn what you are,
and be such.
~Pindar

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting
talents, which in prosperous circumstances
would have lain dormant.
~Homer

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In great attempts it
is glorious even to fail.
~Longinus

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Our life is what
our thoughts make it.
~Marcus Aurelius

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All that we are is the result of what we
have thought. The mind is everything.
What we think, we become.
~Guatama Buddha

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Enjoy yourself!
It is later than you think.
~Socrates

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Men are disturbed not by the things
that happen, but by their opinions
of the things that happen.
~Epictetus

It is a rough road that leads to
the heights of greatness.
~Seneca
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How oft the darkest hour of ill
breaks brightest into dawn.
~Euripides

We will either find a way
or make one.
~Hannibal

Man becomes that of which he thinks.
~Upanishads
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No one was ever great without
some portion of divine inspiration.
~Cicero
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It is the chiefest point of happiness
that a man is willing to be what he is.
~Desiderius Erasmus

Look to this day! For it is life,
the very life of life.
~Sanskrit Prayer

Ask not what tomorrow may bring,
but count as blessing every
day that Fate allows you.
~Horace

Time and tide wait for no man.
~Geoffrey Chaucer

A happy life is one which is in
accordance with its own nature.
~Seneca

Gladly accept the gifts
of the present hour.
~Horace
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The happiness of your life depends
on the quality of your thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius

The good and wise
lead quiet lives.
~Euripides

Live so that you are at ease, in
harmony with the world, and full of joy.
~Confucius

Those who follow that part of themselves
which is great are great; Those who
follow that part which is little are little.
~Mencius

Eternity itself cannot restore
the loss struck from the minute.
~Ancient Poet

A warrior must only take care
that his spirit is never broken.
~Shissai

This brilliant courage that in you we see
Will master all if you its master be.
~Voltaire

Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life...
~Psalm 23:6

Remember this, that very little
is needed to make a happy life.
~Marcus Aurelius

The most manifest sign of wisdom
is continued cheerfulness.
~Montaigne

An act of goodness surpasses
a thousand prayers.
~Sa'di

Adversity has the effect of eliciting 

talents, which in prosperous circumstances
would have lain dormant.
~Homer

It is the character of a brave and
resolute man not to ruffled by
adversity and not to desert his post.
~Cicero

Begin, be bold, and
venture to be wise.
~Horace

The journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step.
~Lao-Tzu

Slight not what's near
while aiming at what's far.
~Euripides

Delay not to seize the hour!

The desire for safety stands against
every great and noble enterprise.
~Tacitus

The bravest are surely those who
have the clearest vision of what is before
them, glory and danger alike, and yet
not withstanding, go out to meet it.

In great attempts it
is glorious even to fail.
~Longinus

This is the place. This is the time.
There is no other.
~Kirvan

They are able because
they think they are able.

For whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
~Galatians 6:7

He who would arrive at the appointed 

end must follow a single road and not
wander through many ways.
~Seneca

Learn what you are, and be such.
~Pindar

Every thought that you send out is
a vibration which never perishes.
It goes on vibrating every particle of
the universe; and if your thoughts are
noble, holy, and forcible, they set in
vibration every sympathetic mind.
~Swami Sivananda

No barriers, no masses of matter,
however enormous, can withstand the
powers of the mind. The remotest
corners yield to them: all things succumb,
the very heaven itself is laid open.
~Manlius