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