As you can probably tell from this site, I am a huge fan of quotes. I really like listening to what other smart people have to say and then applying their wisdom and guidance to my life. I find it extremely powerful and inspirational. In light of learning and growth you will see my current list of favorite quotes listed below. These quotes have been compiled through various literature and web sites that I have come across through my studies. Each one of these quotes has deep meaning for me and hopefully whoever reads this can share in that. Enjoy!
Complete Quote List
| Author | Quote |
|---|---|
| 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 | Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. |
| 2 Peter 3:5 | For this they are willingly ignorant of... the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I will prepare and some day my chance will come. |
| Abraham Lincoln | If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? |
| Abraham Lincoln | Whatever you are, be a good one. |
| Abraham Lincoln | You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. |
| Abraham Lincoln | When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. |
| Abraham Lincoln | You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. |
| Albert Einstein | Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. |
| Albert Einstein | If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it. |
| Albert Einstein | Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. |
| Angie Fenimore | Life's supposed to be hard. We can't skip over the hard parts. We must earn what we receive. |
| Anonymous | Knowledge without work is dangerous |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. |
| Betty Eadie | We are here to have love for every person born on earth. Their earthly form might be black, yellow, brown, handsome, ugly, thin, fat, wealthy, poor, intelligent, or ignorant, but we are not to judge by these appearances. Each spirit has the capacity to be filled with love and eternal energy. |
| Betty Eadie | Whatever we become here in mortality is meaningless unless it is done for the benefit of others. |
| Betty Eadie | There is a fullness of the gospel, but most people will not attain it here. In order to grasp this truth, we need to listen to the Spirit and let go of our egos. |
| Bill Tytla | It is too limiting to copy someone else |
| CRT:1:12 | Creation does not explain itself; under the Law, it cannot do so; its secrets have to be unraveled by the created. |
| CRT:1:13 | All things are finite. An unaccomplishable purpose would be eternal frustration, and therefore, the universe being created purposefully it must have an objective. |
| CRT:2:13 | What you know to be good, seek for and it shall be found. |
| CRT:2:2 | Without substance, the Spirit of God was awake, but entering substance, it slept. |
| CRT:2:5 | Had man not been created, who would have known God's wisdom and power? |
| Dale Carnegie | The principles taught in this book will work only when they come from the heart. I am not advocating a bag of tricks. I am talking about a new way of life. |
| Dale Carnigie | You can't win an argument |
| Dhammapada 19 | Even if he is fond of quoting appropriate texts, the thoughtless man who does not put them into practice himself is like cowherd counting other people's cows, not a partner in the Holy Life. |
| Dhammapada 20 | Even if he does not quote appropriate texts much, if he follows the principles of the Teaching by getting rid of greed, hatred and delusion, deep of insight and with a mind free from attachment, not clinging to anything in this world or the next - that man is a partner in the Holy Life. |
| Dhammapada 41 | Before long this body will be lying on the ground, discarded and unconscious, like a useless bit of wood. |
| Dhammapada 63 | A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool. |
| Dhammapada 65 | Even if a man of intelligence lives with a wise man only for a moment, he will immediately recognise the truth, like one's tongue recognises the flavour of the soup. |
| Dhammapada 66 | Stupid fools go through life as their own enemies, doing evil deeds which have bitter consequences. |
| Dhammapada 77 | If a man disciplines, instructs and restrains them from what is not right, he will be dear to the good, and disliked by the bad. |
| Dhammapada 81 | Like a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise or blame. |
| Donald Trump | Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. |
| Donald Trump | Everything in life is luck. |
| Donald Trump | As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big. |
| Donald Trump | Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. |
| Fergy | Why do you want to memorize how I did this action? I may do it different next time. |
| Fred Moore | I have reached everything I want, and I'm only twenty-four. Now what do I do? |
| Genesis 18:14 | Is there anything too hard for the Lord? |
| George Carlin | I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. |
| Holyoak 1990 | If you would like to excel at a profession or a mental skill, plan on adding to your knowledge every day |
| Howard Storm | God wants us to do what we want to do. That means making choices - and there isn't necessarily any right choice. There is a spectrum of possibilities, and we should make the best choice from those possibilities. If we do that, we will receive help from the Other Side. |
| Jackdeth | Try, fail, try again, fail even worse, try again, score! |
| James 4:4 | Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? |
| James Allen | The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn |
| Jeremy Shoemaker | I spend maybe 2-5% of my time maintaining what I have and the rest of the time trying to grow. |
| Jesus | Let one who seeks not stop seeking until one finds. When one finds, one will be disturbed. When one is disturbed, one will be amazed, and will reign over all. |
| Jesus | What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul? |
| Jesus | Watch and pray that you may not be born in the flesh, but that you may leave the bitter bondage of this life. |
| Jesus | Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. |
| Jesus | There are those who derive pleasure in being what they are not, but as their hair turns grey, they suffer sorrow and frustration. Be ever true to yourselves and to your natures. |
| Jesus | Justice is not a thing of the time. Though the mills of God grind slowly, they grind to perfection. Life itself metes out justice. The justice of God adjusts the injustice of men. Were this not so, I would not have come. |
| Jesus | Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and greater things. |
| Jesus | Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking. |
| Jesus | This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. |
| Jesus | Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human. |
| Jesus | Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. |
| Jesus | Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. |
| Jesus | He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city. |
| Jesus | Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. |
| Jesus | The kingdom of heaven is spread out across the earth, only people don't see it. |
| Jesus | Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. |
| Jesus | Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. |
| Jesus | Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. |
| Jesus | This soul needs to follow another soul in whom the Spirit of life dwells, because she is saved through the Spirit. Then she will never be thrust into flesh again. |
| Jesus | The kingdom of God is within you. |
| Jesus - Gospel of Thomas | His followers said to him, 'When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?' He said to them, 'What you look for has come, but you do not know it.' |
| Jesus - Gospel of Thomas 28 | I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty. But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways. |
| Jim Buckmaster | Get something out there. Do it, even if it isn't perfect. |
| Jim Buckmaster | We are not so much anti-capitalist (...) We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy business, even though we haven't attempted to. All we have done is stop short of trying to become insanely wealthy. We have met billionaires and it sounds funny but it's not necessarily a bed of roses to have that kind of money. |
| Job 1:21 | Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. |
| John 14:6 | I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. |
| John D. Rockefeller | I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. |
| John D. Rockefeller | I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. |
| John D. Rockefeller | If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. |
| John D. Rockefeller | If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. |
| John D. Rockefeller | It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. |
| John D. Rockefeller | The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. |
| John D. Rockefeller | I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. |
| John D. Rockefeller | I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. |
| John D. Rockefeller | A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. |
| Mark Twain | Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover |
| Marvin Jones | Living without reflecting is like eating without digesting |
| Michael Jordan | I've never been afraid to fail. |
| Michael Jordan | I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. |
| Michael Jordan | I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. |
| Michael Jordan | I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. |
| Michael Jordan | I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. |
| Michael Jordan | I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. |
| Michael Jordan | I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. |
| Michael Jordan | My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. |
| Michael Jordan | My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. |
| Michael Jordan | Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. |
| Michael Jordan | Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. |
| Michael Jordan | Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it. |
| MPR:13:3 | Beware the weakness of indecision, for a bad decision is better than no decision at all. |
| MPR:13:3 | Beware of irresolution; better is it to journey along the wrong path than never to start. |
| MPR:32:11 | He who leads to victory is great, but he who can lead in defeat is still greater. |
| MPR:32:8 | The arrogant man, however great may be his power, is less powerful because of his arrogance. |
| MPR:34:15 | God is beyond his comprehension, but Truth is not; it alone is the path towards the fulfillment of the destiny of man. |
| MPR:34:20 | Weakling and fool, are not the foes made by Truth better than the friends made by falsehood? |
| MPR:38:6 | The possessions of a greedy man are never secure, for his avariciousness will destroy that, which his greed has gathered. |
| MPR:9:5 | To help the weak is good but of lesser importance than to attack their oppressor. |
| Numbers 12:6-8 | When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? |
| Peter Lynch | The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. |
| Peter Lynch | The secret to his success is that he never went to business school. |
| Peter Lynch | Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. |
| Peter Lynch | Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. |
| Peter Lynch | Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. |
| Proverbs 14:15 | The naive believes everything, but a wise man looks well to a matter. |
| Proverbs 14:32 | In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. |
| Proverbs 15:32 | He that refuses instruction hates himself, but he who listens to reproof acquires understanding. |
| Proverbs 16:16 | How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver. |
| Proverbs 22:29 | Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings. |
| Proverbs 29:18 | Where there is no vision, the people perish. |
| Romans 10:2 | For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. |
| Romans 5:19 | For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. |
| Russ Whitney | With more knowledge comes less fear |
| Some Smart Physicist | The more I know about something the more I know about everything |
| Spirit | Yes. Wherever we are, the Source, God, is. A heart attack isn't bad. It is just an experience accepted on a certain level of being. |
| Steve Pavlina | Either be full-assed or no-assed |
| Steve Pavlina | By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct |
| Steven Spielberg | All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start. |
| Teddy Roosevelt | Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. |
| Thomas Edison | I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. |
| Thomas Edison | Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. |
| Thomas Edison | Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
| Thomas Edison | Discontent is the first necessity of progress. |
| Thomas Edison | Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. |
| Thomas Edison | I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. |
| Thomas Edison | I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. |
| Thomas Edison | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
| Thomas Edison | Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. |
| Thomas Edison | There is far more opportunity than there is ability. |
| Thomas Edison | There's a way to do it better - find it. |
| Thomas Edison | To have a great idea, have a lot of them. |
| Thomas Edison | Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. |
| Thomas Edison | What you are will show in what you do. |
| Thomas Edison | The best thinking has been done in solitude. |
| Thomas Edison | Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. |
| Thomas Jefferson | I cannot live without books. |
| Thomas Jefferson | I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. |
| Walt Disney | I believe in being an innovator. |
| Walt Disney | A man should never neglect his family for business. |
| Walt Disney | The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. |
| Walt Disney | Never mind the classification, just get that guy in here. |
| Walt Disney | Money - or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas - may worry me, but it does not excite me. Ideas excite me. |
| Walt Disney | Beat them with product |
| Walt Disney | I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it |
| Walt Disney | I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. |
| Warren Buffett | If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. |
| Warren Buffett | The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. |
| Warren Buffett | We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. |
| Warren Buffett | Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. |
| Warren Buffett | You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. |
| Warren Buffett | You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. |
| Warren Buffett | Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. |
| Warren Buffett | Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. |
| Warren Buffett | You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right. |
| Warren Buffett | I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. |
| Warren Buffett | Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. |
| Warren Buffett | I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. |
| Warren Buffett | Our favorite holding period is forever. |
| Warren Buffett | It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. |
| Wayne Gretzky | Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. |
| Wayne Gretzky | The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me. |
| Wayne Gretzky | You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. |
| Wayne Gretzky | A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. |
| Wayne Gretzky | I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for. |
| Wisdom of Solomon 8:19-20 | I was given a sound body to live in because I was already good. |
| WSD:1:12 | Laws are made, and laws are changed, but no man truly knows what is right and what is wrong. |
| WSD:1:24 | The social imperfections are the result of man's lack of understanding and his dedication to material ends rather than spiritual ones. |
| WSD:1:30 | Be modest in manner and calm in bearing, for men avoid the excitable man who is a weak reed to lean upon in times of stress and a hazard in danger. |
| WSD:1:31 | It is more profitable to listen than to talk. |
| WSD:1:31 | Arise early in the morning, and greet the day eagerly, for the sluggard and lieabed are already partially dead. |
| WSD:1:34 | Bear in mind that it is better for a man to be numbered among the insulted than among the insulters, among the slandered and not among the slanderers. |
| WSD:1:37 | Of thoughts, words and deeds, only deeds have any established value on Earth. |
| WSD:1:38 | The man who attempts to clean up the morals of the people is like the dusting cloth which cleans only by becoming soiled itself. |
| WSD:3:15 | Though many men know how they should live very few do in fact live that way. |
| WSD:4:8 | Few are those who recognise their own defects and fewer still those who honestly acknowledge them. |
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The best is:
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. - prefect!
Aweomse quotes! *bookmarked*
Aweomse quotes!
*bookmarked*
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