Quotes
"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it"
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
"He who praises everybody praises nobody"
"A show of envy is an insult to oneself"
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment"
"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side"
"Deadlines are the mothers of invention"
"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel"
"Luck is being ready for the chance"
"The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice"
"Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized"
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"
"Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom"
"I am not young enough to know everything"
"What is hard to endure is sweet to recall"
"Seeking to know is only too often learning to doubt"
"Cynicism--the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence"
"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome"
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"
"Consistency has a compounding effect over time"
"With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism"
“The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction.”
"We do not choose our ancestors"
“It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, supposing it to be new.”
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.”
“No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
“The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.”
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”
“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”
"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."
"Chop your own wood, it will warm you twice"
"Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it"
"A foolish man perceives meekness as weakness"
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little"
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
"Life becomes more meaningful when you realize that you never get the same moment twice."
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
"Change in all things is sweet."
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
“You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.”
"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
“Don’t make everyone know about your sadness.”
"Your friends aren't perfect and neither are you"
"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong."
"She did not read books, so she did not know she was the the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop"
“He said that he doesn’t believe we become different people as we age. No, he says he believes that we become more people."
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
"That which grows slowly endures."
"Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours."
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think."
"Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it."
"What consumes your mind controls your life."
"Strive for greatness."
"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
"Friendship has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival."
"The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind."
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
“Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can’t remember.”
“If you truly believe in what you create, the possibilities are boundless.”
“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.”
“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
“If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”’
“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
“First rule of leadership: Everything is your fault.”
“It isn’t manly to be enraged.”
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
“The superior man is modest in speech but exceeds in his actions.”
“The man who moves a mountain must start by moving small stones”
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“For this is what makes us evil--that none of us looks back upon our own lives.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Your principles can’t be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them.”
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry.”
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“Often what weighs you down isn’t yours to carry”
“Experience is the name many people give their past mistakes”
“Common sense is genius dressed in work clothes.”
“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.”
"I will not say ‘Do not weep,’ for not all tears are an evil.”
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
“What a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil.”
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a great idea until he has something to forgive.”
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
“The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.”
"Each age finds its own technique."
“Common sense is genius dressed in work clothes.”
“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.”