Quotes

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself - Marlene Dietrich

Here are some of the quotes from your collection, grouped by common themes:

On Action, Perseverance, and Success

  • You miss 100 per cent of the shots you never take - Wayne Gretzky

  • The pain of discipline weighs ounces, but the pain of regret weighs tons - Jim Rohn

  • The total secret of success in life lies in 2 words, PERSISTENCE and RESISTANCE

    • Persist in what must be done

    • Resist in what ought not to be done

  • It takes less time to do things right than to explain why did you did it wrong - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up!

  • Work while you have the light

  • Practice as if you are the worst. Perform as if you are the best

On Knowledge, Learning, and Wisdom

  • But so long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray ... To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other great virtues. - Bertrand Russell

  • Any man is EDUCATED who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into a definite plan of action - Napoleon Hill

  • The love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak - Michael Garrett Marino

  • You teach best what you most need to learn - Richard Bach

  • Confidence never comes if we have all the answers. It comes when we are ready for all the questions

  • Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov

  • He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever - Chinese Proverb (often attributed to Mark Twain)

On Attitude, Perspective, and Inner Strength

  • If you can't change your fate, change your attitude - Amy Tan

  • He who has a "WHY" to live, can bear with almost any "HOW" - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are - Max DePree

  • Things don't get better by worrying about them

  • They say pain is inevitable but suffering is optional

  • I was once distraught because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet

  • What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Two thoughts that define our attitude: What we think of ourself when we have nothing and … what we think of others when we have everything

On Relationships and Character

  • Never break four things in your Life - Trust, Promise, Relation and Heart because when they break they don't make noise but pains a lot...

  • Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking - H.L. Mencken

On Time and Life's Value

  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of - Benjamin Franklin

  • How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever - David Norris

  • Time makes more converts - Thomas Paine

  • The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

  • People always make time to do the things they really want to do

On Humor and Irony

  • All generalizations are false, including this one - Mark Twain

  • It's not denial, I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality - Bill Watterson of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes

  • That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you - Whitney Brown

  • I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true - Dorothy Parker

Miscellaneous / Broader Themes

  • Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important - George Eliot

  • College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don’t worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you - Jon Stewart addressing a B-school event

  • God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change The courage to change the things I can, and The wisdom to know the difference - Serenity Prayer adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous

  • Sure, real estate, stocks, bonds and commodities are investments, but so are education, art, spirituality, vacations, health and children

  • Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal - Oscar Wilde

  • There is an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is

  • The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius - Oscar Wilde

  • Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy – Aristotle

  • For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus

  • Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. – Albert Einstein

  • YOU are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you

  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness

  • What a man wishes, that also will he believe.