Favorite Quotes ...
Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.
“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.”
Ennius
“Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Robert J. Hanlon
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius
“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”
Wild Wild West, TV Show
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
Bull Durham the Movie
“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
J.W. Goethe
“We all fear death and question our place in the universe, the artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
Woody Allen
“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”
Rodger Ebert
“Receive without pride. Let go without attachment.”
J.W. Goethe
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
Voltaire
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.”
Bertrand Russell
“Ideology is often an escape from personal failure.”
Andrew Klavan
“The great tragedy of life is not that you don’t get everything you want; it’s that you get everything and there is no time left to enjoy it.”
Miles Davis
“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”
Oliver Cromwell
“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.”
Sophocles
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“If a lady says “no”, it means “maybe”, if she says “maybe” it means “yes” if she says “yes”, it’s not a lady.”
Voltaire
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
“You can’t get out of the way of what you don’t see coming.”
Basil Beighey
“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Confucius
“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”
Robert Ringer
“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”
Jerry Rice
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
Jean de La Bruyere
“Drunkenness does not give rise to vices, it reveals them.”
Plato
“Emotions are the grandchildren of judgments.”
Robert Green
“Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.”
Jacques Rueff
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Henry Ford
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“All roads lead to the cemetery.”
Kevin Benson
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“The best and free medicine is hunger.”
Isaac Newton
“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”
Unknown
“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
J.W. Goethe
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
Plato
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”
Steven Covy
“You don’t have to have an opinion about that.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”
H. L. Mencken
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”
Rumi
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare – McBeth
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford
“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”
Oscar Wilde
“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
Ayn Rand
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
Albert Einstein
“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain
“He who drinks dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“You can easily judge a man’s character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
J.W. Goethe
“I would rather earn 1% of 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
John D. Rockefeller
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
Mark Twain
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
“To call the progress of the West a “Tyrannical Patriarchy” is indicative of a deep-seated resentment and a historical ignorance that’s so profound that it’s indistinguishable from willful blindness.”
Jordan Peterson
“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
“It’s not the will to win that matters, . . . It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
Unknown
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Henry Ford
“Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
Francis Bacon
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen
“What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.”
John Howe
“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”
John D. Rockefeller
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”
Tim Kreider
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Confucius
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
Herb Stein – Economist
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epictetus
“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”
Brian Flanagan, Cocktail the Movie