My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.
Noam ChomskyI can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.
Beyonce KnowlesWherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Albert SchweitzerIf I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
David BowieOur whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.
David GogginsI would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David ThoreauIn any profession it gets to be a grind.
Denzel WashingtonExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeWith fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn MonroeI just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.
Kanye WestIf I can be a leader, I will.
Lady GagaIf virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
EpictetusMy rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.
Robert KiyosakiI don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
Matthew McConaugheyReading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.
Margaret AtwoodWith ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.
Nikola TeslaLoving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce MeyerBut for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye WestLook within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus AureliusWho you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet go of yesterday.
Joel OsteenI read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
Terry PratchettEven when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund HillaryWhen you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores HuertaRunning taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.
Nelson MandelaOur treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich NietzscheSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Bill GatesLearn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.
John C. MaxwellIf 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 RohnA man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel JohnsonWe do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma GandhiIt is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai LamaThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas SowellIf you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.
Ray BradburyIf it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry KissingerIf something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.
Bob MarleyEach life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
Billy GrahamI want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.
Brian EnoJudge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
VoltaireThe future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James BaldwinSuccess is not a stop sign.
Robert KiyosakiPeople suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
Thich Nhat HanhNothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas JeffersonI would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
Kanye WestI’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
Paul AusterOur brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
Robert KiyosakiFlaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale CarnegieDo not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
BuddhaMany people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.
Brene BrownOne always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
ConfuciusTo add value to others, one must first value others.
John C. MaxwellObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry FordConcentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham BellThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch SpinozaI have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Dan QuaylePrecepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy BuffettSuccess is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn