There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Work and Career Quotes
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.
One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
— Chanakya
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
If you want to go east, don't go west.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Well begun is half done.
By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose.
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Skill to do comes of doing.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
— Napoleon
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
— Jim Rohn
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late someday.
Be the chief but never the lord.
— Laozi
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
— Epicurus
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Not all those who wander are lost.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Our passion is our strength.
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
— Napoleon
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.