Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore RooseveltIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
AristotleIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireIf I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
Narendra ModiA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas CarlyleLeaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry KissingerWhat goes up must come down.
Isaac NewtonWhat difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Khalil GibranThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinWe call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSince God created the world, He also created reality.
Pope FrancisIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas SowellMy life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
Matthew McConaugheyMen create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
AristotleMan – a being in search of meaning.
PlatoI draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
Albert CamusThe ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.
William JamesWhere there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
SocratesThe way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
Jeff BezosNo man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. ThompsonMy justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Amy WinehouseLife is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim CarreyWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George EliotFiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia WoolfDeath is not the worst that can happen to men.
PlatoIf you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody AllenThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
Hermann HesseI think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
Lou HoltzPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda MeirOnce I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
Edmund HillaryExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace ThackerayMy biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas JeffersonIf you don’t live your life, then who will?
RihannaA good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
PlatoThings are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan WattsA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeI have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.
Henry KissingerWhere the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia WoolfThere’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
John LennonEurope has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.
James BaldwinWhich death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.
Julius CaesarIf there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich NietzscheI don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.
Jurgen KloppIf history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard ShawTheology is unnecessary.
Stephen HawkingIn matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.
Ruth Bader GinsburgAnd it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve JobsThere is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis BaconIt disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul SartreThe world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Thomas CarlyleEthics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert SchweitzerStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusThere’s place and means for every man alive.
William ShakespeareIf you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOn the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.
Stephen CurryBeing prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher