Favorite Quotes


There’s no order to these quotes, they aren’t categorized by topic intentionally. And that’s the whole point of it, to read each one. This list will continually grow and evolve. Enjoy.

  1. By changing your mind, you change everything. - Unknown

  2. Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle. - Jon Acuff

  3. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Unknown

  4. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  5. Become who you are by learning who you are. - Pindar

  6. One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci

  7. Do not think that which is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. - Marcus Aurelius

  8. One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  9. Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us. - Marcel Proust

  10. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein

  11. Intensity is the price of excellence. - Warren Buffett

  12. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglas

  13. A broken clock is right twice a day. - Unknown

  14. Nothing that has an end is long. - Cicero

  15. I never lose. I either win or learn. - Nelson Mandela

  16. The highest reward to man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - Unknown

  17. Maturity is the acceptance of responsibility. - John C. Maxwell

  18. If you stick with it, you can move mountains in 365 days. - Unknown

  19. If you want the same things year after year, you’re not growing. - Unknown

  20. When you take responsibility, you move. - John C. Maxwell

  21. I can’t make back time. - Unknown

  22. If your goals are not exceptional how if your life supposed to be? - Unknown

  23. Always leave a year better than you started it. - Unknown

  24. Don’t quit, push back. - Unknown

  25. The best is the enemy of the good - Voltaire