Favorite Quotes ...
Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”
Rumi
“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
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
Jean de La Bruyere
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”
Jerry Rice
“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
“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
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
Francis Bacon
“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”
H. L. Mencken
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Henry Ford
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Confucius
“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
“Receive without pride. Let go without attachment.”
J.W. Goethe
“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”
Robert Ringer
“The best and free medicine is hunger.”
Isaac Newton
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
J.W. Goethe
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“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 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
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“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
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
Unknown
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
“Emotions are the grandchildren of judgments.”
Robert Green
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Henry Ford
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Most people don’t recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”
Thomas Edison
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.”
Jacques Rueff
“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
“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”
Wild Wild West, TV Show
“You can’t get out of the way of what you don’t see coming.”
Basil Beighey
“I am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
Mark Twain
“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”
Brian Flanagan, Cocktail the Movie
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”
Rodger Ebert
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epictetus
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”
Oliver Cromwell
“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.”
Ennius
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Drunkenness does not give rise to vices, it reveals them.”
Plato
“I would rather earn 1% of 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Ideology is often an escape from personal failure.”
Andrew Klavan
“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”
Oscar Wilde
“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.”
Sophocles
“You don’t have to have an opinion about that.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Robert J. Hanlon
“Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
J.W. Goethe
“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”
Tim Kreider
“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”
Unknown
“You can easily judge a man’s character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
J.W. Goethe
“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
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford
“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”
Steven Covy
“All roads lead to the cemetery.”
Kevin Benson
“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
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Confucius
“The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
Bull Durham the Movie
“He who drinks dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
Herb Stein – Economist
“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare – McBeth
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do what you want them to because he or she wants to do it.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“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
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato