And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew CarnegieI like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
Kurt CobainWe have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
Thich Nhat HanhIt is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David ThoreauI’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.
Kevin HartWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John RuskinIt is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma GandhiMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
AristotleI think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
Lady GagaThere are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin FranklinNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin DisraeliMy favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
Wayne DyerVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles DickensWe have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
Matthew McConaugheyI’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.
Nipsey HussleThen not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
PlatoI think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Elon MuskYou can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard ShawYoung men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Joseph AddisonWith patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Barack ObamaThe only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.
David Goggins‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘
DJ KhaledTo be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
ConfuciusAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul SartreSome people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
Brian EnoCommon sense is not so common.
VoltaireOne of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.
Brene BrownCreativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMy mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.
Huey NewtonA person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.
Robert GreeneRealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart TolleThe foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
BuddhaIf someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim RohnWhatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
Stephen CurryPublic sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham LincolnTo win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
Lou HoltzI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnWhat you don’t do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor RooseveltYouth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin DisraeliTime is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.
Billie EilishDon’t be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald ReaganMy great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham LincolnWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleAim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
Bill ShanklyI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas JeffersonAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsSeventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody AllenThe key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
Stephen CoveyI can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.
Stephen CurryToo many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Richard BransonTo those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. BushUnless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
Narendra ModiI want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
Dwayne JohnsonWhen you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.
Joyce MeyerWhat the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will RogersMy message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Marilyn MonroeBegin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne DyerHow many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco ChanelIt seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky