Quotes
INSIGHTS
SOCIETY
BUSINESS/SUCCESS
LOVE
INSIGHTS
“What is happiness but the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads”
-Albert Camus
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible”
-Stanislaw Lec
“He who looks outside dreams; He who looks inside wakes”
“Those who wonder are not always lost”
-JR Tolken
“My life has been the poem I would have writ
But I could not both live and utter it”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul”
-Marcus Aurelius
“A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”
-John Barrymore
“Solitude is better than a bad companion”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
-Andre Gide
“Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.”
“God gave man two ears and one mouth so we could listen twice as much as we speak”
“Youth is not a time of life but a state of mind…
A predominance of courage over timidity…
of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease…”
-Robert F Kennedy
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“Self-praise depreciates.”
-Miguel de Cervantes
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Life is not having and getting but being and becoming”
-Mathew Arnold
“Small minds discuss people
Average minds discuss events
Great minds discuss ideas”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm it had in pursuit”
“We would be better off ignoring what we notice and noticing what we ignore.”
“There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- Albert Einstein
“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”
-Aldous Huxley
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
-Andre Gide
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
-Frank A. Clark
“People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.”
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education”
-Albert Einstein”
“You can’t change the wind, but you can adjust your sails”
“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening
-Barbara Tober
“Beware of the light at the end of the tunnel, it may be an oncoming train”
“It is our choices that show who we are, far more than our abilities”
-JK Rowlings
“Interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority”
-Alfred Adler
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words but in the choices one makes”
-Elanor Roosevelt
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting”
-Ben Franklin
“No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it”
-Ellen Glasgow
“Poetry is what happens when anxiety meets technique”
-Lawrence Durrell
“The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.”
-Chris McCandless
“There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your hearts desire, the other is to gain it”
-George Bernard Shaw
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.”
-Tolstoy
“Not until we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves”
-Thoreau
“You cannot teach a man anything. Only help him find it within himself
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives”
-Albert Einstein
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves”
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“If you make people think they’re thinking they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you”
“The two most compelling forces in the history of the world have been the love of power and the power of love”
“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all”
-Rebecca West
“The key to finding happiness is not to pursue it”
“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued is always beyond our grasp,
But which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
“A man with outward courage dares to die. One with inward courage dares to live”
“Its never too late to be who you might have been”
-George Elliot
“One does not stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant”
-A. Bronson Alcott
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish”
-Thomas Gray
“We judge others by their behaviors. We judge ourselves by our intentions”
-Ian Percy
“If you’re upset by every rub, how will you ever become polished”
SOCIETY
“The root of materialism is poverty; the well fed remain idealists”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“What you do for yourself dies with you
But what you do for others lives on and is immortal”
-Albert Pine
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting”
-Sydney Harris
“A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated to fuel production is founded on trash and waste”
“Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it”
“When we treat a man as he is, he becomes worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already were what he could potentially be, we make him what he could be”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
BUSINESS/SUCCESS
“Ambition is the gateway to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in”
“Success is getting what you want but
happiness is wanting what you get”
“Entrepreneurs are those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted”
“It is not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich”
-Josh Billings
“He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second… quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
-Thomas Watson
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
-Truman Capote
“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
-Albert Camus
“In victory you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
-Thomas Watson
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
-Ayn Rand
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary”
-Vince Lombardi
“Never let success go to your head, or failure to your heart.”
“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.
“To be impartial is to have already taken sides with the status quo.”
“The temptation to quit is always greatest right before you succeed”
“Vision without action is a dream, action without vision is a nightmare”
-Proverb
“It’s much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know much about the problem”
-Malcolm Forbes
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your dreams”
-Zig Ziglar
“There is no such thing as luck, it is only the residue of design. “Luck” is when planning meets opportunity”
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
-Roger Staubach
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”
-Abe Lincoln
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Normalcy and rebellion are but two sides to the same useless coin”
-Ptolemy Tompkins
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
-Norman Cousins
”An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom”
-Herman Hesse
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. “
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
-Andre Gide
“If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.”
-Blaise Pascal
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
-Da Vinci
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul”
-Joseph Addison
“The purpose of education is replace an empty mind with an open one”
-Malcolm Forbes
“The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it.”
-Maria Montessori
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple, the philosophy is kindness”
-Dalai Lama
LOVE
“If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.”
-Shakespeare
“Passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; sometimes they sink it; but without them it would be impossible to make way”
-Voltaire
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”
-Miguel de Unamuno
“It is with true love as with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.”
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“He who looses himself in passion has lost less that he who has lost his passion”
-St Augustine
“Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire”
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
OTHER
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“We all have a need to know what we do not need to know.”
“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times: resist hyperbole.”
“I’m a realist – the glass is neither half full or half empty, the glass is too big”
“I have finished my play… now all I have to do is write it down”
-Alexandre Dumas
“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing
“An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.”
“By taking over or accepting the conceptions of others we lose contact with the potential wisdom within ourselves”