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