This page is a collection of the sayings and quotes shared by the great men and women. Take it what you like!
“If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”
Erwin Rommel
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
Ayn Rand
“The historical cycle seems to be: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy, from apathy to dependency; and from dependency back to bondage once more.”
Henning W. Prentis, Jr.
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffet
“Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.“
G. Michael Hopf
“A nation is born a stoic and dies an epicurean.”
Will Durant
“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.“
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“You only get one shot in this life, don’t waste it living someone else’s dream.”
“The ability to adapt, learn, and reinvent themselves constantly.“
Yuval Harari
Stefan Aarnio
Do not trade the greatness of tomorrow for the pleasures of today.
“Passionate work stimulates the mind like a car engine recharges its battery—by running, not resting.”
Gene Simmons
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin
“If you want to make everyone happy, don’t be a leader—go sell ice cream.”
Steve Jobs
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.”
General George S. Patton
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have
Albert Einstein
The impediment to action advances action,
Markus Aurelius
what stands in the way become a way.