Tag: Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Self Esteem Quotes

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~ Lucille Ball

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ~ Baltasar Gracian

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ~ Ben Johnson

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. ~ Samuel Johnson

A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. ~ Jean De La Bruvere

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. ~ Jean De La Bruvere

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Morale is self esteem in action. ~ Avery Weisman

A man can stand a lot if he can stand himself. ~ Axel Munthe

Philosophical Quotes

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop

Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. ~Baba Ram Dass

I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

There’s more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau

Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn

Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu

Politics and Leadership Quotes

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. – John F. Kennedy

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, “What a dust do I raise!” – Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. – Great Law of the Iroquois

There is a tide in the affairs of men. – Julius Caesar

The truth is treason in the Empire of Lies. – Ron Paul

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity. – Theodore Levitt

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. – Ronald Reagan

Superficial goals lead to superficial results. – Attila the Hun

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

Honor is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking. – Unknown

If a man is to shed the light of the Sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. – Romain Rolland

Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. – Howard Zinn

Man is free at the instant he wants to be. – Voltaire

Great ideas alter the power balance in relationships. That’s why great ideas are initially resisted. – Hugh MacLeod

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. – Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Laozi

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie

A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contributions to praise the skill of others. – Norman Shidle

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. – Vince Lombardi

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristoteles

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. – Jim Rohn

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. – Isaac Asimov

Idiots Quotes

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

I, I don’t think anybody’s continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. – Rube Goldberg

I’m all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. – Leo Szilard

I’ve known attractive airheads, and I’ve known ugly idiots. – Neil Cavuto

If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better. – Peter Finch

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That’s why we’ll never have flying cars. People don’t know how to drive. – Dustin Diamond

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots. – Dan Fogelberg

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? – Martin Farquhar Tupper

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. – Gustave Flaubert

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access. – Peter Nelson

Only idiots refuse to change their minds. – Brigitte Bardot

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. – David Ogilvy

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they’re idiots. – Eric Schmidt

So I don’t think I’m gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots. – Todd Rundgren

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don’t open their minds. Most of them are idiots. – Rob Schneider

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – Rebecca West

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots. – Randy Cross

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. – Otto von Bismarck

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison’s lyrics were like poetry… like that was a deep thought. – Bruce McCulloch

Famous Change Quotes

Posted on February 20, 2011 by

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The only thing constant in life is change.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” – Jacob M. Braude

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” – Confucius

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” – Denis Waitley

Birthday Quotes

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

Celebrate your birthday with a great portion of enjoyable birthday quotes.

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” –Samuel Ullman

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” –Ann Landers

“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.” –Unknown

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln

“It takes a long time to grow young.” –Pablo Picasso

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” – Emily Dickinson

“One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.” –Virginia Woolf

“May you live all the days of your life.” –Jonathan Swift

“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.” –Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.” –Caryn Leschen

“The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.” – Helen Rowland

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” –Douglas MacArthur

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” –George Bernard Shaw

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” –Bob Hope

“Middle age: The time when you’ll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.” –Robert Quillen

“Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.” –Andre Maurois

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” –Bonnie Prudden

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.” –Edith Wharton

“For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.” – Richard Needham

“The years teach much which the days never knew.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.” – John Mortimer

“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.” –Sir Winston Churchill

“Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” –Pope John XXIII

“Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.” –Joseph Addison

“You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” –James Barrie

Words of Wisdom

Posted on January 2, 2010 by

– “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” – Plutarch

– “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

– “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James

– “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol

– “Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach

– “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” – William Penn

– “The middle course is the best.” – Cleobulus

– “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley

– “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

– “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

– “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca

– “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” – John Milton

– “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” – Menander

– “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

– “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson

– “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great

– “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

– “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase

– “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer

– “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young

– “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius