Favorite Quotes ...
Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epictetus
“You don’t have to have an opinion about that.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The best and free medicine is hunger.”
Isaac Newton
“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”
Tim Kreider
“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”
Oscar Wilde
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“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
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”
Wild Wild West, TV Show
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
Unknown
“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
“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
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
Voltaire
“You can easily judge a man’s character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
J.W. Goethe
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“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
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
Francis Bacon
“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“Receive without pride. Let go without attachment.”
J.W. Goethe
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Henry Ford
“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”
Rumi
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Henry Ford
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
“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
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Most people don’t recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”
Thomas Edison
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Robert J. Hanlon
“I am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
Mark Twain
“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
Herb Stein – Economist
“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”
Jerry Rice
“He who drinks dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
“Emotions are the grandchildren of judgments.”
Robert Green
“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
“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
“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”
Brian Flanagan, Cocktail the Movie
“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
“The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
Bull Durham the Movie
“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain
“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”
Unknown
“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Confucius
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie
“All roads lead to the cemetery.”
Kevin Benson
“You can’t get out of the way of what you don’t see coming.”
Basil Beighey
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Drunkenness does not give rise to vices, it reveals them.”
Plato
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”
Steven Covy
“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare – McBeth
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”
Rodger Ebert
“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“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
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
J.W. Goethe
“Value experience over possessions because memories are the real treasures of life.”
Unknown
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
Jean de La Bruyere
“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”
Oliver Cromwell
“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”
Robert Ringer
“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
“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 am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
J.W. Goethe
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford