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2 years ago

I am a huge fan of quotes

Whenever I think of something 1/2 useful or deep, I quickly discover that someone has said it with more verve and brevity. Hence, a running list of great quotes. This is not exhaustive (of course) and I did my best to attribute to the right person (uh, the interweb is not perfect). Also, since the majority of quotes are 50+ years old lots of “man”, not people.

How to organize this list?

I gave this lots of thought, how to put things into “buckets” so they are useful? In the end, this is a resource – not a narrative, or self-help guide. Ergo, I just kept it simple. Short quotes up front, long ones in the back. Basic, I know.

600+ amazing quotes

Carpe diem – Horace
The gods favor the bold – Ovid
Action is eloquence – Shakespeare
Yesterday, you said tomorrow – Nike
Tear down this wall – Ronald Reagan
The world is flat – Thomas Friedman
Learn to unlearn – Benjamin Disraeli
The buck stops here – Harry S Truman
May the force be with you – Star Wars
A friend is a second self – Aristotle
Change before you have to – Jack Welch
Only the educated are free – Epictetus
Man plans, God laughs – Yiddish saying
We’re one, but we’re not the same – U2
Competition is for losers – Peter Thiel
Love of bustle is not industry – Seneca
Showing up is 80% of life – Woody Allen
Good is the enemy of great – Jim Collins
Time gives good advice – Maltese proverb
Great men are not always wise – Job 32:9
The trench is dug within our hearts – U2
They are able who think they are able – Virgil
Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde
Discipline equals freedom – Jocko Willink
The best cure for anger is delay – Seneca
The journey is the reward – Taoist saying
Boredom is rage spread thin – Paul Tillich
History is more or less bunk – Henry Ford
Wisdom is taking your own advice – Unknown
Better silent than stupid – German proverb
All cruelty springs from weakness – Seneca
Big brother is watching you – George Orwell
We either find a way or make one – Hannibal
Boredom comes from a boring mind – Metallica
Nostalgia is a seductive lie – George W Ball
Strong views, loosely held – Marc Andreessen
All things flow, nothing abides – Heraclitus
The medium is the message – Marshall McLuhan
I’m inconsistent, even to myself – Bob Dylan
The only way round is through – Robert Frost
Love is the only gold – Alfred Lord Tennyson
All men dream, but not equally – T E Lawrence
Anyone who stops learning is old – Henry Ford
Character is a long-standing habit – Plutarch
Forever is composed of nows – Emily Dickinson
Never cut what you can untie – Joseph Joubert
Never eat more than you can lift – Miss Piggy
Bed is the poor man’s opera – Italian proverb
Fall seven, stand up eight – Japanese proverb
I will get by, I will survive – Grateful Dead
When angry, count to one hundred – Mark Twain
The best is the enemy of the good – Voltaire
Deliberate often – decide once – Latin proverb
It’s been a long, strange trip – Grateful Dead
Software is eating the world – Marc Andreessen
The best art divides the audience – Rick Rubin
To be social is to be forgiving – Robert Frost
Rest is the sweetest sauce of labor – Plutarch
One love, hone heart, one destiny – Bob Marley
Golf is a good walk spoiled – Harry Leon Wilson
Beware the barrenness of a busy life – Socrates
Man, an animal that makes bargains – Adam Smith
Where thou art, that, is home – Emily Dickinson
Fatige makes cowards of us all – Vince Lombardi
Living well is the best revenge – George Herbert
The devil’s boots don’t creak – Scottish proverb
Religion is the opiate of the people – Karl Marx
The object of war is to survive it – John Irving
Those who live are those who fight – Victor Hugo
Everyone hears only what he understands – Goethe
Amateurs hope. Professionals work – Garson Kanin
Be yourself; everyone else is taken – Oscar Wilde
A great ship asks for deep water – George Herbert
A leader is a dealer in hope – Napoleon Bonaparte
A smiling face is half the meal – Latvian proverb
Good deeds are not done in hurry – German proverb
Habit is stronger than reason – George Santayana
Happiness is wanting what you have – Bryan Callen
No good deed ever goes unpunished – Brooks Thomas
Brevity is the soul of wit – Shakespeare ‘Hamlet’
The unexamined life is not worth living – Socrates
All great achievements require time – Maya Angelou
Books are a uniquely portable magic – Stephen King
I am still learning (ancora imparo) – Michelangelo
We never touch but in points – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever is well said by another, is mine – Seneca
Taste is the enemy of creativeness – Pablo Picasso
Don’t hate the player; hate the game. – Jamie Foxx
If you would marry wisely, marry your equal – Ovid
May you grow old on one pillow – Armenian blessing
Too much agreement kills a chat – Eldridge Cleaver
A good meal must begin with hunger – French proverb
Never confuse motion with action – Ernest Hemingway
To be honest, one must be inconsistent – H.G. Wells
Your dreams don’t work unless you do – John Maxwell
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac – Henry Kissinger
One cannot both feast and be rich – Ashanti proverb
Shower the people you love with love – James Taylor
Whatever you do, love those who love you – Voltaire
I am a part of all I have met – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ideas are easy, execution is everything – John Doerr
Men are cruel, but man is kind – Rabindranath Tagore
Today, you have 100% of your life left – Tom Landry
Nothing worth having comes easy – Theodore Roosevelt
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful – Mae West
We think when confronted with a problem – John Dewey
The nature of This Flower is to bloom – Alice Walker
Great ideas originate in the muscles – Thomas Edison
Focus on opportunities, not problems – Peter Drucker
If it doesn’t sell, it’s not creative – David Ogilvy
The more I practice, the luckier I get – Gary Player
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world – Robert Frost
In the end, winning is sleeping better – Jodie Foster
You’re only as good at the people you hire – Ray Kroc
Don’t be so humble. You’re not that great – Golda Meir
Fashions fade – style is eternal – Yves Saint Laurent
Love demands less than friendship – George Jean Nathan
May you live all the day of your life – Jonathan Swift
Success is my only mofo option, failure’s not – Eminem
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion – Friedrich Nietzsche
Words should be weighed, not counted – Yiddish proverb
The revolution will not be televised – Gil Scott-Heron
The man who dies rich dies disgraced – Andrew Carnegie
You are not your resume, you are your work – Seth Godin
It wasn’t raining when Noah built his ark – Howard Ruff
It is better to build boys then mend men – Truett Cathy
One kind word can warm 3 winter months – Japanese saying
There are more fools among buyers than sellers – Unknown
It is better to live rich than die rich – Samuel Johnson
Power is not given to you. You have to take it – Beyonce
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom – Francis Bacon
Christian life consists of faith and charity – C.S. Lewis
Great and good are seldom in the same man – Thomas Fuller
It’s always the hard part that creates value – Seth Godin
There is no new thing under the sun – Bible, Ecclesiastes
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders – Winston Churchill
War is the unfolding of miscalculations – Barbara Tuchman
Make yourself necessary to somebody – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I get by with a little help from my friends – The Beatles
The things you own end up owning you – Fight Club (Movie)
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots – Mark Twain
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Michael Jordan
To create one’s own world takes courage – Georgia O’Keefe
It’s easier to talk than hold one’s tongue – Greek proverb
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile – Grateful Dead
I’d far rather be happy than right any day – Douglas Adams
“Why not” is an interesting slogan for life – Mason Cooley
A book is like a garden, carried in a pocket – Arab proverb
We must travel in the direction of our fear – John Berryman
Love the life you live. Live the life you love – Bob Marley
Empathy is key to being a successful leader – Satya Nadella
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer – W. Somerset Maugham
Life is the flower of which love is the honey – Victor Hugo
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up – Joseph Barth
[About architecture] Less is more – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Associate with people who are likely to improve you – Seneca
If you’re going through hell, keep going – Winston Churchill
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it – Elie Wiesel
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance – Coco Chanel
The price of greatness is responsibility – Winston Churchill
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated – Mark Twain
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last – Oscar Wilde
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are – Carl Jung
Everyone lives by selling something – Robert Louis Stevenson
If I know what love is, it is because of you – Hermann Hesse
I am easily satisfied with the very best – Winston Churchill
Good things, when short, are twice as good – Baltasar Gracian
Home is a good breakfast, but is a bad supper – Francis Bacon
Names are a way we have of understanding things – John Irving
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get – Warren Buffett
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Leonardo da Vinci
Teach us to give and not to count the cost – Ignatius Loyala
The great cathedral space which is childhood – Virginia Woolf
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat – Malcolm Forbes
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God – Benjamin Franklin
If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna – Napoleon Bonaparte
Language is the inventory of human experience – L.W. Lockhart
Don’t compromise yourself, you are all you got – Janis Joplin
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing – Socrates
I drink to make other people interesting – George Jean Nathan
I love a broad margin to my life – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Nothing becomes real until it becomes experienced – John Keats
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be – Lao Tzu
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse – Seneca
A wise man hears one word and understands two – Jewish proverb
Work is man’s most natural form of relaxation – Dagobert Runes
Love demands all, and has a right to it – Ludwig van Beethoven
Only great men have great faults – François de La Rochefoucauld
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom – Charles Peguy
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge – Will Henry
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die – Jean-Paul Satre
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is – Truett Cathy
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be – Robert Browning
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice – E.E. Howe
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor – Franklin D Roosevelt
Everybody over 40 is responsible for his face – Abraham Lincoln
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes – Oscar Wilde
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice – Rush
People who love to eat are always the best people – Julia Childs
Television is the chewing gum for the eyes – Frank Lloyd Wright
The only way to do great work is to love what you do – Steve Jobs
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship – William Blake
You can disagree without being disagreeable – Ruth Bader Ginsberg
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky – Bob Dylan
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine – R.E.M.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer – Peter Drucker
A bad system will beat a good person every time – W Edward Demming
Judge a man by his questions, not his answers – Pierre Marc-Gaston
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage – Anais Nin
Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket – Mark Twain
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition – W.H. Auden
The government is becoming the family of last resort – Jerry Brown
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters – Peter Thiel
Without great solitude no serious work is possible – Pablo Picasso
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper – Kahil Gibran
We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things – Herb Kelleher
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain – Gandhi
Life expands or shrinks in proportion to one’s courage – Anais Nin
Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear – Marting Luther King Sr
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names – John F Kennedy
I never think of the future, it comes soon enough -Albert Einstein
Make happy who are near, and those far will come – Chinese proverb
To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing – Aristotle
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak – Epictetus
Television has a real problem. They have no page two – Art Buchwald
To have a second language is to possess a second soul – Charlemagne
Growth creates complexity, complexity kills growth – Bain & Company
There is no remedy for love than to love more – Henry David Thoreau
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – Franklin D Roosevelt
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth – Mike Tyson
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future – Robert Schuller
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all – John F Kennedy
Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes – Andy Warhol
The world is changed by example, not by your opinion – Paulo Coelho
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world – Miyamoto Musashi
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others – Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are – Albert Camus
When you are as great as I am, it’s hard to be humble – Muhammad Ali
A friend is one before whom I may think outloud – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year – Polish proverb
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope – Martin Luther
Everyone has faults, and honesty is his – Shakespeare ‘Tim of Athens’
Most people get ahead during the time that others waste – Henry Ford
Offense sells tickets. Defense wins championships – Coach Bear Bryant
You can learn anything, for free, for everyone, forever – Salman Khan
If I die, I forgive you; if I recover, we shall see – Spanish proverb
The secret to success is the constancy of purpose – Benjamin Disraeli
The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes – Anonymous
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes – Henry David Thoreau
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – Charles Dickens
Fight the power, we’ve got to fight the powers that be – Public Enemy
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention – Herbert Simon
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan – Eleanor Roosevelt
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected – Swedish proverb
There is not a way to happiness – happiness is the way – Thich Nhat Hanh
Every man is a consumer and out to be a producer – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else – Tennessee Williams
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back – Malala Yousafzai
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade – Leo Buscaglia
Two people can form a community by excluding a third – Jean-Paul Sartre
An expert is an ordinary man away from home giving advice – Oscar Wilde
I do desire we may be better strangers – Shakespeare, ‘As you like it’
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort – Jane Austen
They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds – Mexican proverb
What makes you different or weird – that’s your strength – Meryl Streep
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything – Mark Twain
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything – Malcolm X
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress – Mahatma Gandhi
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts – Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth – Adlai Stevenson
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason – Benjamin Franklin
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive – Robert Louis Stevenson
Do what your can, with what you have, where you are – Theodore Roosevelt
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life – Immanuel Kant
He has the right to criticize, who has a heart to help – Abraham Lincoln
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency – Reid Hoffman
See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little – Pope John XXIII
The biggest barrier to learning is the fear of making mistakes – Sal Khan
We like someone because. We love someone although – Henri De Montherlant
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it – Benjamin Franklin
Skate to where the puck is going and not where it’s been – Wayne Gretzsky
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness – Mark Twain
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved – George Macdonald
The tigers wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction – William Blake
If I go down in flames, the smoke will spell my name – Louis the Child
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking – Friedrich Nietzsche
Great teachers know how to make students excited about learning – Ken Bain
Greatness is consistently driven by a deep love of the work – Maria Popova
History is a philosophy learned from examples – Dionysius of Halicarnassus
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest – Henry David Thoreau
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die – Eleanor Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot, and hang on – Anonymous
Listen more, talk less and be decisive when the time comes – Satya Nadella
All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They – Rudyard Kipling
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than war – Homer
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? – Abraham Lincoln
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others – Francois Mauriac
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe – David Hare
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry – Winston Churchill
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small parts – Henry Ford
The more you win, the more you want to win. It’s addictive – Lewis Hamilton
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it – Margaret Thatcher
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their action – Dwight Morrow
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorry – Swedish proverb
The enemies of the future are always the nicest people – Christopher Morely
City life – millions of people being lonesome together – Henry David Thoreau
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious – Albert Einstein
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free – Michelangelo
All human wisdom is summed up in two works – wait and hope – Alexandre Dumas
The only way to get rich is to create more than you consume – Naval Ravikant
What is actual is actual for only a time and only for one place – T.S. Eliot
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell – Edward Abbey
If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any – Jim Collins
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you – Lao Tzu
You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with – Jim Rohn
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result – Michelle Obama
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception – Groucho Marx
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege even better – Anna Chennault
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good – Dr. Seuss
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting – Kahlil Gibran
Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets -W. Edward Deming
Fear leads to self-doubt which is the worst enemy of creativity – David Ogilvy
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination – Roy M. Goodman
The human race has improved everything except the human race – Adlai Stevenson
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal – Aristotle
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life – Steve Jobs
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved – Victor Hugo
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old – Peter Drucker
Home is not where you live but where they understand you – Christian Morgenstern
A hero is one who knows how to hang on for one minute longer – Norwegian Proverb
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for – Will Rogers
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force – George Washington
I hate the giving hand unless the whole man accompanies it – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough – Mario Andretti
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions – Catherine Cook
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover – Henri Poincare
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist – Pablo Picasso
The most important decision a business can make is “To be who it is” – Joey Reiman
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – George Santayana
Pollution is nothing but the resources we’re not harvesting – Buckminster Fuller
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity – Erich Fromm
Never let success go to your head, never let failure get to your heart – Beyonce
For where the heart is, that is sure to be where your treasure is – Bible
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there – Lewis Carroll
Diplomacy is the art of saying, “nice doggie” until you find a rock – Will Rogers
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory – Albert Schweitzer
I am he. As you are me. And we are all together – John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I have had lots of troubles in my life, most of which never happened – Mark Twain
Now when I bore people at a party, they think it’s their fault – Henry Kissinger
Republics are brought to their end by luxury; monarchies by poverty – Montesquieu
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1 – Warren Buffett
The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet – William Gibson
Wherever you had an efficient government you have a dictatorship – Harry S Truman
You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than in one way – Marvin Minsky
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving – David Ogilvy
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things – Henry David Thoreau
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend – Calvin and Hobbes
The young feel old at the end of an action. The old at the beginning – T.S. Eliot
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage – Jacques Cousteau
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up – Mark Twain
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants – Isaac Newton
A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you invent – William Blake
A refreshing definition of a camel: a horse planned by a committee – Vogue magazine
A solution that is not affordable to the common man, is not a solution – Dr. Devi Shetty
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better – Flannery O’Connor
Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves – Ernest Renan
What you do everyday matters more than what you do once in a while – Gretchen Rubin
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian – Gandhi
Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness – Time magazine
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon – Jimmy Carter
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts
You are all-beautiful, my beloved, and there is no blemish in you – Song of Solomon
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer – Peter Drucker
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves – Logan Persall Smith
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold – Zelda Fitzgerald
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together – Marilyn Monroe
The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents – Carl Jung
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally – Zelda Fitzgerald
Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own – Bruce Lee
Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend – Beatles
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits – Anonymous
All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long – Steven Spielberg
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind – Albert Einstein
If you’re not fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm – Vince Lombardi
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all – Oscar Wilde
Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn – Sal Khan
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten – B.F. Skinner
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious – Marcus Aurelius
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows – Aristotle Onassis
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit – Aristotle
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies – Friedrich Nietzsche
The butterfly counts not months but moments, And has time enough – Rabindranath Tagore
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things – Peter Drucker
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic – Arthur C. Clarke
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on an ass’ back – Japanese / Persian proverb
To be uncertain is to be comfortable, but to be certain is ridiculous – Chinese proverb
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water – Mao Tse-Tung
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen – Bible
It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice – Deng Xiaoping
The toughest about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success – Irving Berlin
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less – C.S. Lewis
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important – T.S. Eliot
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else – Sir James Barrie
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends – Baltasar Gracian
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people – Howard Zinn
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars – Elber Hubard
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, you’ll be criticized anyway – Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear is your friend. It’s an indicator that you’re doing something worthwhile – Tim Ferris
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent – Abraham Lincoln
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any – Fred Astaire
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away – Picasso
To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations – Emily Dickinson
They intoxicate themselves with work so they don’t see how they really are – Aldous Huxley
Government should do only those things that people cannot do for themselves – Ronald Reagan
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain – Joseph Campbell
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized – C.K. Chesterton
In America, anyone can become President. That’s one of the risks you take – Adlai Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign – Robert Louis Stevenson
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer – Ansel Adams
No task, rightly done is truly private. It is the part of the world’s work – Woodrow Wilson
The people who are successful are those who can learn, unlearn, and relearn – Satya Nadella
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future – Seneca
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime of experience – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment – Will Rogers
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in – Robert Frost
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else – Marvin Gaye
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good – Jerry West
The market is always right. It’s your job to figure out why it’s right – Paul Tudor Jones II
Television has proven that people will look at anything rather than each other – Ann Landers
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing – Edmund Burke
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds – Bob Marley
However beautiful the strategy, you should sometimes look at the results – Winston Churchill
In a hierarchy every employees tends to rise to his level of incompetence – Laurence J. Peter
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love – Mother Teresa
I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself – Beyonce
You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills – Herb Kelleher
With guns, you can kill terrorists. With education, you can kill terrorism – Malala Yousafzai
The challenge in healthcare is not a lack of innovation, it’s a lack of adoption – Dr. Brent James
I don’t give them hell. I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell – Harry S Truman
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions – Peter Drucker
Old ages takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we earned – Gerard Brenan
To do one thing consistently well over time: that is the mark of a great artist. – David Mamet
God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys and satisfaction of creation
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away – John Caldwell
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places – Ernest Hemingway
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value – Albert Einstein
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be – Kurt Vonnegut
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice – Kahlil Gibran
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision – Peter Drucker
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals – Henry Ford
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor – Elon Musk
Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end – Atul Gawande
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to make a profit – Samuel Gompers
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you – Anne Lamott
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after growing up – Pablo Picasso
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell – Seth Godin
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone – Fredrick Nietzsche
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying – Michael Jordan
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day – Lao Tzu
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness – Bertrand Russell
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. – Jim Rohm
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness – Calvin and Hobbes
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one – Joan Baez
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in stormy billows of wind – Goethe
I believe I have found the missing link between animal and civilized man, it is us – Konrad Lorenz
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before – Mae West
Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have – Robert Holden
Never try to walk across a river just because it is an average depth of four feet – Martin Friedman
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up – Albert Schweitzer
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the result of a hundred battles – Sun Tzu
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness – Confucius (Amnesty International motto)
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager – Peter Drucker
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes – W. Windood Roade
Sorrow is fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it – Victor Hugo
Love is not finding someone to live with, it’s finding someone you can’t live without – Fafael Ortiz
The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood – Lyndon B. Johnson
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled – Sir Barnett Cooks
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined – Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all – Peter Drucker
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a long time – Andre Gide
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing, and mean it – Hugh Sidney
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success – Henry Ford
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient – Warren Buffett
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life – Golda Meir
You have offered to trade us an apple for an orchard. We are not that kind of country – John F Kennedy
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in it’s own way – Leo Tolstoy
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual – Jacques Bainville
Commandment number one of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different – David Grayson
The most important thing a father can do for this children is to love their mother – Theodore Hesburgh
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it – Edith Wharton
You can be happy or you can be unhappy. It’s just according to the way you look at things – Walt Disney
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master – P.T. Barnum
For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude – T.S. Eliot
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t – Margaret Thatcher
It has taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything – Rene Cory
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain – Kahlil Gibran
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage – Lao Tzu
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich – John F Kennedy
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure – George Sand
The passing minute is every man’s equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours – Marcus Aurelius
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end – Immanuel Kant
Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want – Naval Ravikant
It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You’ve got to succeed at what’s necessary – Winston Churchill
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in linking what one has to do – James M Barrie
Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that is scarce – Naval Ravikant
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned – Richard Feynman
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves – Thomas Jefferson
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes – Walt Whitman
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own – Robert A. Heinlein
Acquaintance, n: a person we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to – Ambrose Bierce
If you are entirely comfortable with your strategy, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good – Roger Martin
There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America – Barack Obama
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary – Richard Harkness
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people – Peter Drucker
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) – Walt Whitman
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals – Zig Ziglar
The test and the use of a man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind – Jacques Barzun
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing – Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it – Eisenhower
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom is not exceeding that limit – Elbert Hubbard
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself – Kahlil Gibran
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams – Dr. Seuss
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love – Mother Teresa
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool – Richard P. Feyman
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I’m ready to accept even death – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. – Robert Frost
My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest – Warren Buffet
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need – Rolling Stones
By working faithfully 8 hours of a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day – Robert Frost
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple – Richard Branson
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied – Henry George
Most people in action are not worth very much; and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle – James Baldwin
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages – Henry Ford
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” – Erich Fromm
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts – Phil Jackson
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads – Erica Jong
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom – Isaac Asimov
We only became what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others had made of us – Jean Paul Sartre
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do – Henry Ford
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results – Milton Friedman
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference – Robert Frost
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him – William Lyon Phelps
What you choose to work on, and who you choose to work with, are far more important than how hard you work – Naval Ravikant
A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust – Nanette Newman
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war – Jimmy Carter
Always remember that the soundest way to progress any organization is to help the man ahead of you get promoted – L.S. Hamaker
There is a single magic, a single power, a single salvation, and a single happiness, and that is called loving – Hermann Hesse
Love does not consist in gazin at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement – Isocrates
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge – Jimmy Wales
The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no shortcuts. And you’ve got to have the guts to be hated – Bette Davis
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will – Epictetus
As a manager, you’re paid to be uncomfortable. If you are comfortable, it’s a sure sign you’re doing things wrong – Peter Drucker
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again – Ann Patchett
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Never do anything in the first year of your married life that you do ont want to do for the rest of your life – Naomi Fuller Worsley
Hope’ is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and signs the tune without words and never stops – at all Emily Dickinson
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of living – Joseph Campbell
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work – Stephen King
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug – Mark Twain
A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do – Walter Lippman
Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences – Kevin Kelly
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others – John Andrew Holmes
There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living – Nelson Mandela
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage – J.K. Galbraith
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. Everyone is needed, but no one is irreplaceable – Atul Gawande
One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve – Albert Schweitzer
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring ran – T.S. Eliot
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings – Helen Keller
I’m not sure why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower – Banksy
Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering – Nicole Krauss
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for – Epicurus
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country poorly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of – Confucius
The job of a doctor or a teacher or anyone else in a position of authority is to make the system work. It’s not to serve the system – Atul Gawande
I can’t give you to the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is – try to please everybody – Herbert Bayard Swope
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything – Warren Buffet
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at the close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light – Dylan Thomas
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid – Albert Einstein
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today – John F Kennedy
Experience is the teacher of all things, and an expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field – Benjamin Franklin
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of their parents – Carl Jung
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being In love, to really love. . . You never know anyone until you marry them – Eleanor Roosevelt
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present – Lao Tzu
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists – Eric Hoffer
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see one which has been opened for us – Helen Keller
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward – Martin Luther King Jr.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What is cannot be is moderately important – C.S. Lewis
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose – Helen Keller
All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition – Peter Thiel
Our life is frittered away by detail. . . simplify, simplify. . . A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone – Henry David Thoreau
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been – William Hazlitt
There is only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engaged in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud – Milton Friedman
We are moving from a world where computing power was scarce to a place where it now is almost limitless, and the true scarce commodity is increasingly human attention – Satya Nadella
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy – Naval Ravikant
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight – e.e. cummings
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is the sword that heals – Martin Luther King Jr.
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose – Immanuel Kant
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! – Statue of Liberty
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty – Mother Teresa
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership – Colin Powell
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat – Theodore Roosevelt
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him – Viktor Frankl
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty – Thomas Jefferson

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