Inspirational Quotes
The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. — George Kostanza
Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside. — Albert Einstein (in a letter to Erwin Schrödinger, August 8, 1935)
Voting in a democracy makes you feel powerful, much as playing the lottery makes you feel rich. — Mencius Moldbug
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. — Philip K. Dick
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm. — Vince Lombardi (US football coach, 1913-1970)
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? — John Wooden
If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spent the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain
I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward. — David Livingstone
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus
I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work,–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself, not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. — Joseph Conrad
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. — Henry David Thoreau
Man is surely mad. He cannot make a worm; yet he makes Gods by the dozen. — Michel de Montaigne
Life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. — John Maxwell
You wouldn’t worry so much about what other people think if you knew how seldom they do. — Minutes from the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1961
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck
Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one. — Geffray Mynshul (Essays and Characters of a Prison, 1612)
Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray (Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 1742)
There’s an old saying about those who forget history. I don’t remember it, but it’s good. — Stephen Colbert
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. — Victor Frankl
The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. — The Buddha
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. — Turkish Proverb
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei