Basil Beighey

Basil Beighey

Favorite Quotes ...

Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.

“It’s not the will to win that matters, . . . It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”

Paul “Bear” Bryant

“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”

John D. Rockefeller

“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”

Epictetus

“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”

Benjamin Franklin

“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

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

Plato

“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

Rudyard Kipling

“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

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Plato

“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

“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”

Unknown

“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”

Rumi

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

Confucius

“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.”

Ennius

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

Plato

“I am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

Mark Twain

“Drunkenness Does not give rise to vices, it reveals them.”

Plato

“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”

Albert Einstein

“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”

Oliver Cromwell

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Confucius

“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

“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”

Harper’s Siegel

“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”

Steven Covy

“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”

Herb Stein – Economist

“Leadership is the art of getting some else to do what you want them to because he or she wants to do it.”

Dwight Eisenhower

“Ideology is often an escape from personal failure.”

Andrew Klavan

“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”

Mike Tyson

“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”

Mark Twain

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

Confucius

“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

“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

“Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

Henry Ford

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

Voltaire

“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”

Robert Ringer

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”

H. L. Mencken

“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”

Wild Wild West, TV Show

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

Confucius

“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Oscar Wilde

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

Henry Ford

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Plato

“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”

Oscar Wilde

“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”

Andrew Carnegie

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

Epictetus

“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“The best and free medicine is hunger.”

Isaac Newton

“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

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

Andrew Carnegie

“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

Ambrose Bierce

“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

“Most people don’t recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”

Thomas Edison

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”

Woody Allen

“All roads lead to the cemetery.”

Kevin Benson

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

Farrah Gray

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

Henry Ford

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”

Rodger Ebert

“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

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”

Mark Twain

“He who drinks, dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”

Bull Durham the Movie

“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”

Jean de La Bruyere

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

Oscar Wilde

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.”

Upton Sinclair

“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

“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”

Brian Flanagan, Cocktail the Movie

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

Aristotle

“I would rather earn 1% of a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”

John D. Rockefeller

“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

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”

Henry Ford

“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”

Shakespeare – McBeth

“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”

John D. Rockefeller

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”

John Maynard Keynes

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

Henry Ford

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

Francis Bacon

“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

Jean-Michel Basquiat

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

Martin Luther King, Jr

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”

Mark Twain

“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”

Jerry Rice

“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

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

Confucius

“Emotions are the grandchildren of judgments.”

Robert Green