In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. By Dwight D. Eisenhower Quick View Author All Quotes, Dwight D. Eisenhower Tag: #planning, #plans, #strategy, #war
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. By C.G. Jung Quick View Author All Quotes, C.G. Jung Tag: #self-acceptance, #self-esteem, #self-love
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. By Marilyn Von Savant Quick View Author All Quotes, Marilyn Von Savant Tag: #strengths, #success, #weaknesses
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that’s a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of. By Stanley Keleman Quick View Author All Quotes, Stanley Keleman Tag: #authentic-living, #authentic-self, #community, #joseph-campbell, #respect, #security
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. By Lewis Carroll Quick View Author All Quotes, Lewis Carroll Tag: #alice, #humor, #inspirational, #philosophy-of-life, #psychological, #yesterday
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #writing, #writing-craft
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. By Mo Willems Quick View Author All Quotes, Mo Willems Tag: #fairy-tales, #humor, #humorous, #philosophy, #psychology
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. By Charles W. Eliot Quick View Author All Quotes, Charles W. Eliot Tag: #friends, #reading, #teachers
People are silently begging to be led. By Jay Abraham Quick View Author All Quotes, Jay Abraham Tag: #leadership
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. By Mark Twain Quick View Author All Quotes, Mark Twain Tag: #living
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. By Mary Kay Ash Quick View Author All Quotes, Mary Kay Ash Tag: #inspiration, #resourcefulness
Don’t Just Don’t just learn, experience. Don’t just read, absorb. Don’t just change, transform. Don’t just relate, advocate. Don’t just promise, prove. Don’t just criticize, encourage. Don’t just think, ponder. Don’t just take, give. Don’t just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don’t just hear, listen. Don’t just talk, act. Don’t just tell, show. Don’t just exist, live. By Roy T. Bennett Quick View Author All Quotes, Roy T. Bennett
rebels seem to resist conformity to anything—except perhaps the Apple brand. By Jonah Sachs Quick View Author All Quotes, Jonah Sachs
man who goes to a hardware store to buy a power drill doesn’t really need a drill—he needs holes. He By Jay Abraham Quick View Author All Quotes, Jay Abraham
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. By Herman Melville Quick View Author All Quotes, Herman Melville Tag: #adventure, #laughter
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. By Peter Drucker Quick View Author All Quotes, Peter Drucker
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. By Mary Kay Ash Quick View Author All Quotes, Mary Kay Ash Tag: #music-inspirational
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. By J.R.R. Tolkien Quick View Author All Quotes, J.R.R. Tolkien Tag: #hope, #inspirational, #love
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. By Confucius Quick View Author All Quotes, Confucius
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. By Emma Donoghue Quick View Author All Quotes, Emma Donoghue Tag: #bravery, #courage, #fear
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. By Seneca the Younger Quick View Author All Quotes, Seneca the Younger Tag: #goals
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make? By Terry Johnson Quick View Author All Quotes, Terry Johnson Tag: #humor, #misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, #philosophy
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. By J.R.R. Tolkien Quick View Author All Quotes, J.R.R. Tolkien Tag: #wisdom
The consumer isn’t a moron. She is your wife. By David Ogilvy Quick View Author All Quotes, David Ogilvy Tag: #advertising, #david-ogilvy
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. By C.S. Lewis Quick View Author All Quotes, C.S. Lewis Tag: #learning
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. By Charles Dickens Quick View Author All Quotes, Charles Dickens Tag: #giving, #helping-others
questions challenge authority and disrupt established structures, processes, and systems, forcing people to have to at least think about doing something differently. By Warren Berger Quick View Author All Quotes, Warren Berger
Regrets are illuminations come too late. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. By Edmund Burke Quick View Author All Quotes, Edmund Burke Tag: #doomed, #history, #learning, #school
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. By Dale Carnegie Quick View Author All Quotes, Dale Carnegie Tag: #dishonesty, #inspirational, #life, #people
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” [Stanford University commencement speech, 2005] By Steve Jobs Quick View Author All Quotes, Steve Jobs Tag: #identity, #independence, #inner-voice, #life, #steve-jobs
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking By Albert Einstein Quick View Author Albert Einstein, All Quotes Tag: #creativity, #epiphany, #humor, #inspiration
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible By Vladimir Nabokov Quick View Author All Quotes, Vladimir Nabokov Tag: #ink, #invisible, #pages, #writing
The best way to predict your future is to create it By Peter Drucker Quick View Author All Quotes, Peter Drucker Tag: #business
Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing. By E.B. White Quick View Author All Quotes, E.B. White Tag: #friendship
To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. By Confucius Quick View Author All Quotes, Confucius Tag: #forgiveness, #grudges
Ignorance is the parent of fear. By Herman Melville Quick View Author All Quotes, Herman Melville Tag: #education, #fear, #ignorance
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. By Albert Einstein Quick View Author Albert Einstein, All Quotes Tag: #knowledge, #learning, #understanding, #wisdom
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. By Aristotle Quick View Author All Quotes, Aristotle Tag: #inspirational, #philosophy, #writing