Quotes
- I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Iman Ali
- Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
- If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
- If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
- A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
- Knowing yourself is the beginning of all Wisdom.
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue.
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- The best answer to anger is silence.
James Baldwin
- You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
- The biggest mistake that one can make in performance is not moving forward after the last mistake.
- To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Otto von Bismarck
- What we learn from history is that no one learns from history.
- Everything we call real is made up of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later!
- Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
- There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. NOT GOING ALL THE WAY and not starting.
- Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?
- Stop insisting on clearing your head—Clear your fucking heart instead.
- I guess the only time people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
- If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
- People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
- The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
- We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
Russell Brand
- When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter, now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.
Dom Helder Camara
- When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
- Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
- Many people have asked what is the meaning of life. That answer is simple. It is whatever happens to prevent one, in any given moment, from killing themself.
- The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Who are Readers? They are an “ancient community held together by Dreams and Fatigue"
Al Capone
- Don't mistake my kidness for weakness. I'm kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what your going to remember about me.
- The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
- Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you're honest with them, then you're an asshole.
- If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to have selfish, ignorant leaders.
- In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.
- Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
- Religion is just mind control.
- That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
- Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- I act because I'm broken in a lot of pieces.
- The funny thing is when you start feeling happy alone, that's when everyone decides to be with you.
- Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Catherine Cook
- If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.
Philip K. Dick
- It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
- The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Bob Dylan
- What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Creativity is intelligence having fun.
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
George Eliot
- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Epictetus
- Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle. Some things are within your control. And some things are not.
- Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- As I get older, I realise being wrong isn't a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something.
- No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself.
- The more you know, the more you know what you don't know.
Jonathan Safran Foer
- Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.
- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
- People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
- Sometimes, no matter how nice you are, how kind you are, how caring you are, how loving you are, it just isn't enough for some people.
Ricky Gervais
- Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
Andre Gide
- Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
- We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
- He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Thich Nhat Hanh
- There is no way to happiness happiness is the way.
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Alexander Den Heijer
- You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.
Ernest Hemingway
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Jimi Hendrix
- When the powers of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know Peace.
- The worst disease in the world today is corruption, and there is a cure: Transparency.
L. Ron Hubbard
- You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Andy Hunt
- Only dead fish goes with the flow.
Aldous Huxley
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Nicholas de Chamfort
- When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
- The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.
Noam Chomsky
- If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.
- The general population doesn't know what's happening and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
- If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
- Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Uncle Iroh
- Pride is not the opposite of shame but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Charles Kettering
- We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of greatest arts in the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
- Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
- Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
Rudyard Kipling
- Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Sallie Krawcheck
- If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.
Stanley Kubrick
- The idea that a movie should be seen only once is an extension of our traditional conception of film as entertainment rather than art.
Jeffery Kwakye
- Life being tough is a sign of a bright future, just keep your head up to your goals and know that hard work is a way of showing respect to our future.
- By what right?
- Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; you put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
- Material wears out, but knowledge stays.
- The succesful warrior is the average man, with laser like focus.
John Lennon
- Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?" I thought I was the only one.
- Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
- True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.
- You can't go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.
- Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
- I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- I will prepare and someday my chance will come.
Clarice Lispector
- It is inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.
Bob Marley
- The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
- When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open.
H.L. Mencken
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.
Alan Moore
- Life isn’t divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you are lucky.
Jim Morrison
- Whoever controls the media controls the mind.
Elon Musk
- Failure is essentially irrelevant unless it is catastrophic.
- First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
- And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
- He who has a ‘why’ for which to live can bear with almost any ‘how’.
- I am a forest, and a night of dark trees; but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
- In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
- There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
- There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
- They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Thomas Otway
- If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.
Ovid
- Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Blaise Pascal
- The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
- Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.
Fernando Pessoa
- To be understood is to prostitute oneself.
Sylvia Plath
- The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
- Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
- You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.
Mario Puzo
- Never have your enemies. It affects your judgment.
- Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
- It is incredibly powerful to know that your future is in your hands.
- The person who was holding me back from my happiness was me.
Ryan Reynolds
- Sometimes I spend time alone because hearing the same meaningless conversations from people everyday makes me want to punch someone in the face.
Henry Rollins
- I'm unnervingly polite, but I am also capably violent.
- If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
- The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
- What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
- The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
Carl Sagan
- Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.
Bernie Sanders
- The problems we face did not come down from heavens. They made. They are made by bad human decisions, and good humans can change them.
Brandon Sanderson
- The most important step a man take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
- Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. That is intelligent living.
- You just can't beat a person who never gives up.
- The best revenge is massive success.
- You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures of Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem.
- Democracy is only as good as the education that surrounds it.
- No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
- Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
- The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- Everyone, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
- Oh well, whatever happens, happens.
- Too many people are trying to find the right person instead of being the right person.
H.G. Tannhaus
- You can choose as you want, but your wants are chosen for you.
Dita von Teese
- You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.
- Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Be alone, that is when ideas are born.
J.R.R. Tolkien
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Tupac
- Sometimes, the person you'd take a bullet for, ends up being the one behind the gun.
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
- Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- 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.
- Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character it become your destiny.
Unknown
- Ask for a slap in the face: If you show somebody a piece of your work and you ask them 'What do you think?' they will probably say it's okay because they don't want to offend you.Next time, instead of asking if it's right, ask them what's wrong. They may not say what you want to hear, but the chances are they will give you a truthful criticism. Truth hurts, but in the long run it's better than a pat on the back.
- Divorce is okay, breaking up is okay, starting over is okay, moving is okay, being alone is okay. What is not okay is staying somewhere you're not valued and appreciated.
- Don't be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try.
- Excercise is a celebration of what you can do, not a punishment for what you ate.
- I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perspective.
- If I do a job in 30 minutes, it's because I spend 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years not the minutes.
- If you want to change your life, focus on creating systems, not achieving goals.
- If you are dumb and you're willing to admit you're dumb, you're already smarter than the vast majority of dumb people.
- If you don't take those opportunities in your life, someone else will.
- It's better to be real than to be perfect.
- People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Rock bottom will teach you lessons that mountain tops never will.
- The heaviest burdens that we carry are the thoughts in our head.
- The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
- You can sound confident and have anxiety. You can look healthy but feel like shit. You can look happy and be miserable inside. You can be good looking and feel ugly. So be kind, because every person is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
- You need no one's approval for the decision you make for yourself.
- Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.
- Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than see.
- Men argue, nature acts.
- Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.
- True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
- Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
- A good friend will always stab you in the front.
- Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make other people happy, because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
- I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
- Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.
- Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.
- You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Slavoj Zizek
- The first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in.