Best Quotes Around the World

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I’m not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

All you need is love.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‚I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!‘ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Never mistake motion for action.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.