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