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