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- The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage. Jack London. Beautiful, Stories, Wreckage.
- I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
- Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London. Inspirational, Life, Motivational.
- I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself. Jack London. Thinking, World, Think Of Me.
- “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” ― Jack London.
- “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.” ― Jack London.
- “I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.” ― Jack London,
- “The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.” ― Jack London, White Fang.
Explore the best quotes from Jack London's classic short story To Build a Fire, about a man and a dog struggling to survive in the cold. Find insights on themes such as fire, survival, nature, and human nature.
Find inspirational and motivational quotes by Jack London, the American novelist and journalist. Explore his views on life, death, success, and more.
- Zeal For Living
- Fight, Courage, and Indomitability
- Ambition and Drive
- Philosophy of Life
- Sense of Personal Conviction and Honor
- The Love of Pride and Prestige For Their Own Sake
- Wildness
- The Desire to Leave A Legacy
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“And who knows what Romance, what Adventure, what Love, is lurking around the next turn of the road, ready to leap out on us if we’ll only travel that far?” –Inscription in George Sterling’s copy of The Road, March 26, 1914 “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it? Stocks and bonds, and houses and servants–pouf! Heart and arteries and a st...
“A man without courage is to me the most despicable thing under the sun, a travesty on the whole scheme of creation.” –Letter to Cloudesley Johns, April 30, 1899 “As for cowardice in man: I can forgive the errors of a generation of women far more easily than one poltroon of the opposite gender.” –Letter to Cloudesley Johns, April 22, 1899 “We can’t...
“Hell is full of sweet, spineless souls who devoted themselves to sweetness and light. . . . doers are unaffected by sweetness and light and all the rest of the complacent soft culture of the non-doers who do not even smell when they are dead.” –Letter to Philo M. Buck, Jr., July 19, 1913 “You want some short cut that, to save my soul, I have no kn...
“Find out about this earth, this universe; this force and matter, and the spirit that glimmers up through force and matter from the magnet to Godhead. And by all this I mean WORK for a philosophy of life.” –“Getting Into Print,”The Editor, March 1903 “To be well fitted for the tragedy of existence . . . one must have a working philosophy, a synthes...
“Truth is no respecter of age, nor of youth . . . Remember, anything less that the utter truth is a lie and a cheat by you to yourself. . . . you cannot play tricks with Truth. Any trick with Truth is a lie and a cheat. Truth says, if you are to deal fairly with her, that you must in your dealings be as pure as the high heavens, as honest as the bi...
“The things I like constitute my set of values. The thing I like most of all is personal achievement — not achievement for the world’s applause, but achievement for my own delight. It is the old ‘I did it! I did it! With my own hands I did it!’” —The Cruise of the Snark, Chapter I
“It was in the Klondike that I found myself. There, nobody talks. Everybody thinks. You get your perspective. I got mine.” —Jack London, by Himself “But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for...
“The world is covered with the dust of self-called and alleged sane men who left no mark upon the face of life and are utterly forgotten. Please, please remember that the big things lie in passion and in passionate expression.” –Letter to Philo M. Buck, Jr., March 1, 1913 “‘The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are ind...
Thumos is the ancient Greek term for the spiritedness, fire, and drive of a man. Read Jack London's quotes on thumos and how he lived a life of adventure, passion, and courage.
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Browse and share quotes from The Call of the Wild, a classic novel by Jack London about a dog's journey into the wild. Find inspirational, philosophical, and descriptive quotes about life, nature, and survival.
Jack London. author. The Call of the Wild. book. Buck. character. death. ᐧ. fear. ᐧ. nature. ᐧ. conflict. ᐧ. fighting. ᐧ. weaknesses. ᐧ. mercy. ᐧ. struggle. concepts. 02. “It was heartbreaking, only Buck’s heart was unbreakable.” Jack London. author. The Call of the Wild. book. Buck. character. resilience.
