Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. By Roy T. Bennett Quick View Author All Quotes, Roy T. Bennett Tag: #giving, #goals, #goals-in-life, #inspiration, #inspirational, #learn, #learning, #life, #life-quotes, #light, #light-and-darkness, #living-life, #meaning, #meaning-of-life, #meaningful, #meaningful-life, #wisdom, #wise
You do not overcome the old teaching through doing less, but through doing more. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things. By C.G. Jung Quick View Author All Quotes, C.G. Jung
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. By Plato Quick View Author All Quotes, Plato
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid. By Robert Greene Quick View Author All Quotes, Robert Greene
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. By Frank Zappa Quick View Author All Quotes, Frank Zappa Tag: #music, #philosophy, #progress
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. By Dale Carnegie Quick View Author All Quotes, Dale Carnegie Tag: #complaint, #condemnation, #criticism, #fools, #misattributed-ben-franklin
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. By George R.R. Martin Quick View Author All Quotes, George R.R. Martin Tag: #identity
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Quick View Author All Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson Tag: #creativity, #enlightenment, #learning, #reading, #writing
The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. By Anonymous Quick View Author All Quotes, Anonymous Tag: #blood, #education, #ink, #love, #martyr, #society, #study
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity By Sun-Tzu Quick View Author All Quotes, Sun-Tzu Tag: #business, #strategy
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. By Helen Keller Quick View Author All Quotes, Helen Keller Tag: #friendship
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. By Albert Einstein Quick View Author Albert Einstein, All Quotes Tag: #intelligence, #learning, #wisdom
When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. By William Glasser Quick View Author All Quotes, William Glasser Tag: #education, #social-experience, #teachers, #teaching
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think By Socrates Quick View Author All Quotes, Socrates Tag: #knowledge, #philosophy
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #inspirational, #life-lesson, #spirituality
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. By Roy T. Bennett Quick View Author All Quotes, Roy T. Bennett
Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. By Plato Quick View Author All Quotes, Plato
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