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.
By changing your mind, you change everything. - Unknown
Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle. - Jon Acuff
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Unknown
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
Become who you are by learning who you are. - Pindar
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci
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
One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Intensity is the price of excellence. - Warren Buffett
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglas
A broken clock is right twice a day. - Unknown
Nothing that has an end is long. - Cicero
I never lose. I either win or learn. - Nelson Mandela
The highest reward to man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - Unknown
Maturity is the acceptance of responsibility. - John C. Maxwell
If you stick with it, you can move mountains in 365 days. - Unknown
If you want the same things year after year, you’re not growing. - Unknown
When you take responsibility, you move. - John C. Maxwell
I can’t make back time. - Unknown
If your goals are not exceptional how if your life supposed to be? - Unknown
Always leave a year better than you started it. - Unknown
Don’t quit, push back. - Unknown
The best is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire
If you’ve been chasing someone or something unavailable, you’re unavailable to everyone else. - Unknown
To be in love when the outcome is uncertain is an exquisite kind of agony. - Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout, 201
Standing in line is easy, finding your own line is not. - Porsche
When we strive for perfection, great is never good enough. - Unknown
I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it - Susan Sontag
Intimacy is about connection. Not skin. - Unknown
You aren’t taken seriously if you ask for too little. - Unknown
Don’t be sorry, be better. - Unknown
Don’t be right, do the right thing. - Unknown
Everything beautiful in the world is within you. No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. - Russell Brand
Porn is more honest than religion. - Zag
I have three eyes. Two to look. One to see. - Bellamor
Art is not what you see but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. - Buddha
Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not? - Oscar Wilde
There is no mystery so great as Misery - Oscar Wilde
None of us are who we appear to be on the outside, but we have to pretend to survive. - Unknown
Yes, it was morning; the bright, balmy morning of summer; the minutest leaf, the smallest blade of grass, was instinct with life. - Charles Dickens
You don’t have a self until you have a secret. - Megan Abott
Hell is truth seen too late - Thomas Hobbles
I may never be perfect but I will always try to be better. - Unknown
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino
I need to know that your chest still tightens a little when I leave and spreads like butterflies in your veins when I arrive. - Tati Bernardi
I am in the mood to dissolve the sky. - Virginia Woolf
Truth is, I’m a fucking romantic. I’m difficult but I promise - I’m not boring. - Amy Winehouse
There’s no shame in admitting what you don’t know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
If you look the right way you can see the whole word is a garden. - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Politicians tax the middle class for the same reasons some people rob banks. That’s where the money is. - Forbes Magazine, May 11, 1992
I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. - Abraham Lincoln
The gift of losing everything is getting to start over without any baggage. - Unknown
The kind of love letters I write are the ones you read in bed, stretched out under the sheets with one hand between your legs. - Unknown
Seems pretty simple. You wanna get your teeth cleaned for free? Date a dentist. New addition on the house? You should screw an architect. But if you need someone to talk dirty to you in bed, you better fuck a poet. - Rives
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself - Rita Mae Brown
By changing your mind, you change everything. - Unknown
Writing is an efficiency game. Whoever says the most stuff in the fewest words wins. - Morgan Housel
Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle. - Jon Acuff
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Unknown
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
Become who you are by learning who you are. - Pindar
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci
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
One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Intensity is the price of excellence. - Warren Buffett
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglas
A broken clock is right twice a day. - Unknown
Nothing that has an end is long. - Cicero
I never lose. I either win or learn. - Nelson Mandela
The highest reward to man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - Unknown
Maturity is the acceptance of responsibility. - John C. Maxwell
If you stick with it, you can more mountains in 365 days. - Unknown
If you want the same things year after year, you’re not growing. - Unknown
When you take responsibility, you move. - John C. Maxwell
I can’t make back time. - Unknown
If your goals are not exceptional, how is your life supposed to be? - Unknown
Always leave a year better than you started it. - Unknown
Don’t quit, push back. - Unknown
The best is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
Joy is always present - in the silver lining, in the resiliency, in our memories, in the connection to those who share your grief when it comes. - Steven Petrow
If imagination is the rocket, then books are the rocket fuel. They supercharge the mind and help it see beyond what it can conceive on its own. - Trevor Noah
When your back is against the wall, you’ve only got one direction to go. - Mark Cuban
I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering…but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are. - James Baldwin
The authentic voice is a gunshot in a crowded room. - Unknown
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? - Walt Whitman
Money might not be the most important thing in the world, but it is right up there with oxygen. - Zig Ziglar
You’re not here to be mediocre. - Unknown
In our darkest moments, we don’t need advice. - Ernest Hemingway
With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love. - Rumi
Excellence has its own fingerprint. You can’t copy someone else’s path to greatness. - Marcus Buckingham
If I’m working at this place, it better be better the day I leave than the day I arrived - otherwise I’ve personally failed. - Charlie Trotter
People like me don’t have people. We are the people that people have. - Unknown
The best way to “get your spark back” is burning everything down. You have to reset your life. You have to reset your mind. You have to let go of everything you were, everything you had, every lie you told yourself. Then, something else can take their place. Only a few do it. They let go of years and decades, wins and failures, skills and pride - to go somewhere new. It’s hard, but simple. You can restart any time you want. Any time you have the strength. T here’s no feeling like it. Beauty starts with a blank slate. And a blank slate starts with the fiery destruction of your entire existence. Eventually, that inferno turns from pain to warmth. You sit there for a while. Basking in it. Then, the idea hits you. And you’re never the same again. - Unknown
You’re not doing it wrong, you’re just in the part that makes most people quit. - Unknown
When God wanted to make a king out of David He did not bring him a crown, He brought him Goliath. You r challenges prepare you, for your purpose. - Unknown
Your mission’s disruption of another’s ignorance should neither be your intention, nor your concern. - Conner Furu
Progress only comes from changing how you see the world. - Unknown
Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness has never given it away. - Unknown
The longer you delay that thing you know you should do, the more difficult it gets. The easier thing in the short run is often the harder thing in the long run. Pain today, gain tomorrow. - Unknown
Something in her was violently sensual, alive, earthy. - Anaïs Nin
And I will kiss every single scar on your body and soul, to remind you that love doesn’t have to hurt. - Ginnie Bale
You are your home. - Unknown
I don’t break. I rearrange. - Unknown
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That is why they don’t get what they want. - Madonna
Your real strength comes from what no one can strip away. - Unknown
It’s more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be. - Norton Jester, The Phantom Tollbooth, page 19
Whether or not you find your own way, your bound to fund some way. - Norton Jester, The Phantom Tollbooth, page 19-20
Anything, as long as it is nothing, and everything as long as it not anything. - Norton Jester, The Phantom Tollbooth, page 26
Every life is a mixture of comedy and tragedy, joy and sorrow, daring and fear. We choose the tenor of our lives from those clashing notes. - David Von Drehle
And the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. - Mitch Albom
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. - Anne Tyler
Most people aren’t obsessed with their goals because they don’t believe they’re worthy of them. - Mel Robbins
When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. When you lose your character, you lose everything. Remember that. - Unknown
The best part of life is moving forward. - Unknown
Knowledge is power if you use it right. - Unknown
If you want to be happy for a year, get married. If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, plant a garden. - Martha Stewart
In any case, this world will never be finished because our sense of coherence changes over time. - Jill Sanders
The price of procrastination is the life you could have lived. - Unknown
Patience isn’t just a virtue - it’s a technique, a mindset, and a way of being. - April Vokey
Some of the best things unfold when you’re not in a rush. - Kastine Coleman
The journey shapes us. It’s the quiet foundation that lets us enjoy the experience, regardless of the outcome. - Kastine Coleman