This is a list of collected quotes I've picked up over the years. I did not come up with any of these.
Sometimes losing balance in love is how we find balance in life.
-Paraphrased from, "East, Love, Pray."
Life is a game that can't be won, only played. So play on and don't hold nothing back.
-Paraphrased from, "The Legend of Bagger Vance."
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
“There is as much difference between us and ourselves, as between us and others.” Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588
(Rage) “seems to lash back and strike us in the heart muscle.” Charles Spielberger and Perry London (1982)
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him.”
Chinese proverb
“Don’t believe everything you think.” Bumper sticker
"Children need models more than they need critics.”
Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
“The best thing about being 100 is no peer pressure.”
Lewis W. Kuester, 2005, on turning 100
"At 20 we worry about what others think of us. At 40 we don’t care what others think of us. At 60 we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.” Anonymous
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
“All of us who make motion pictures are teachers, teachers with very loud voices.” Film producer George Lucas, Academy Award ceremonies, 1992
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Physicist Neils Bohr, 1885-1962
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard Feynman (1997)
“Sleep is like love or happiness. If you pursue it too ardently it will elude you.” Wilse Webb, 1992
“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn’t it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.” Comedian Rita Rudner, 1993
Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -John Quincy Adams
"A brain simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it." Scientist John Barrow,
"Worrying is a misuse of imagination."
"When you step back to look at the bigger picture, the little things come into focus." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
"Nothing is impossible to industry." Periander, 625-585 B.C.
"We will either find a way or make one." Hannibal, Carthaginian General, 247-183 B.C.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983
"Nothing is so easy as to deceive on's self; for what we wish, we readily believe." Demosthenese, 384-322 B.C.
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." James Branch Cabell
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." Niels Rohr, 1885-1962
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." Thomas Carlyle
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." Sun Tzu
"Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"Every man dies, not every man lives." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"The only way to bring balance to a chaotic world is to constantly fight chaos." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"Never make assumptions." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Xenocrates, 396-314 B.C.
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." Aristotle Onassis, 1906-1975
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." Eugene McCarthy
"Wit is educated insolence." Aristotle, 322-284 B.C.
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." Dan Rather
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." Ursula K. Le Guin
"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism." Dean William R. Inge
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." Wilson Mizner, 1876-1933
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching, but at the same time, steady eye." Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." George Bernard Shaw
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
"Computers are useless.They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso
"I do not seek. I find." Pablo Picasso
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." goethe
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." Bash
"An ida can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"Reality is the result of your dreams." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"To strive, to seek, to find, but not to yield," Plato
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Alber Einstein
"We are not who we think we are. We are not who others think we are. We are who we think others think we are." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free." Nikos Kazantzakis
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
"He who hesitates is a ****** fool." Mae West, 1892-1980
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." David henry Thoreau, 1817-1862
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." henry ford, 1863-1947
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." Goethe, 1749-1832
"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you becausee someone has printed gibberish all ver it and put your name at the top." An English Professor, Ohio University
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while people who know much say little." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Abraham Lincoln
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." Will Rogers, 1879-1935
"Great spirits has always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstien
"Lusk is the residue of design." Branck Rickey, former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
"He who stops being better stops being good." Oliver Cromwell
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." Wernher von Braun, 1912-1977
"the concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Fred Smith went on to found Federal Express, Corp.
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." Robert Orben
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." H.L. Mencken
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." Carl Sagan
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire, 16-94-1778
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." Al Capone, 1899-1947
"All is not cream that comes from a cow." Yiddish Proverb
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault." Henry Kissinger
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." Abraham Maslow
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain, 1835-1910
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." Latin Proverb
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." Isaac Asimov
"Vote early and vote often." Al Capone, 1899-1947
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates, 470-399 B.C.
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." Frank Lloyd Wright, 1868-1959
"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." David Broder
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." Edward George Bulwer Lytton, 1803-1873
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." Rene Descartes, 1596-1650
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake." Chess master Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower, 1887-1956
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." Soren A. Kierkegaard, 1813-1855
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" General George S. Patton, 1885-1945
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759
"Any individual can be, in time, what earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and pring all his powers to bear upon its attainment." J. Herman Randall
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." Malcolm Forbes
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." Anna Morrow Lindbergh
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Alber Einstein, 1879-1955
"Never let yesterday use up today." Richard H. Nelson
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." Helen Keller
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." Robert H. Goddard
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." Henry Ford
"Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters." Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
"If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become It."
William Arthur Ward
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." Harold Taylor
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle
"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." Lord Thomas Dewar
"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it." AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone." Friedrich Durren-Matt
"To teach is to learn twice." Joseph Joubert
"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." John Lithgow
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." J. Paul Getty
