I had this humongous text file packed with collected quotes, but my hard drive crashed and I lost everything, sadly. (if only I had collected some proverbs in there about back-ups...)
Thankfully, I started a new text file anyway
Here's one that I like, even though it doesn't really apply to daily life:
"To win any battle, you must fight as if you were already dead." - Musashi
Well I suppose it kind of does, if you don't take it literally.
and another one:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
-Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC)
and one more:
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." - Abraham Lincoln