Quotes
A collection of quotes that I've put together over the years.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a girl, is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
If you're doing it, you're doing it right.
Timeflies
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.
John Kabat-Zin
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.
Christopher & Johnathan Nolan
Promote what your love, rather than bashing what you hate.
@m_eye_nd
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling
Time is making fools of us again.
J.K. Rowling
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
We become what we pay attention to.
Sam Harris
If I had six hours to cut down large a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Victory has defeated you.
Christopher & Johnathan Nolan
What’s coming, will come, and we’ll meet it when it does.
J.K. Rowling
If there is a god, he will have to beg me for forgiveness.
An unknown holocaust victim (written on walls of Auschwitz)
Which would be worse: To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?
Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
Every tool's a hammer.
Adam Savage
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible.
UNIX Philosophy
Do one thing, and do it well.
UNIX Philosophy
In the darkest of times, hope is something you give to yourself. That is the meaning of-inner strength.
Michael Dante DiMartino (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson
Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. That’s the only way to become what you were meant to be.
Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
Truth is truth.
Bernie Sanders
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
It is far better to be a warrior tending his garden rather than a gardener at war.
Chinese Proverb
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
A society prospers, when old men plant trees they'll never sit in the shade of.
Greek Proverb
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Jac Schaeffer (Wandavision)
Winning feels better when you take a little damage.
20syl
It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Beware of making the best, the enemy of the good.
Christopher Hitchens
Don't equate knowledge, with wisdom.
Niel deGrasse Tyson
Apes. Together. Strong.
Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver
There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse.
Chris Hadfield
Any job worth doing is worth doing poorly.
G.K. Chesterton
If you're going to miss heaven, why miss it by two inches.
Sam Kinison
These violent delights have violent ends.
William Shakespeare
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
Benjamin Franklin
Hope clouds observation.
Frank Herbert (Dune)
We live as long as there is someone left to remember us.
Johnathan Nolan & Lisa Joy (Westworld)
A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse.
Epictetus
Whoever has no fear of death is immortal.
Nikos Kazantzakis
To taste the sea all one needs is a single gulp.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago)
Your sons and you're daughters are beyond your command.
Bob Dylan
You could not step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Bob Dylan
Move only if there is a real advantage to be gained.
Sun Tzu
Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Sun Tzu
Nowhere you can go is more peaceful...than your own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go.
Marcus Aurelius
No one does the wrong thing deliberately.
Marcus Aurelius
Choose not to be harmed-and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed-and you haven't been.
Marcus Aurelius
It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character.
Marcus Aurelius
Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?
Marcus Aurelius
...When you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work--as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for--the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm? --But it's nicer here... So you were born to feel 'nice'? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don't you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you're not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren't you running to do what your nature demands?
Marcus Aurelius
You don't love yourself enough. Or you'd love your nature too, and what it demands of you.
Marcus Aurelius
Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.
Marcus Aurelius
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Straight, not straightened.
Marcus Aurelius
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.
Marcus Aurelius
Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
Marcus Aurelius
What benefits the whole can't harm the parts.
Marcus Aurelius
Stop talking about what a good man is like, and just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you should know it.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything you are trying to reach by taking the long way round you could have right now, this moment. If you'd only stop thwarting your own attempts. If you'd only let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence.
Marcus Aurelius
No thefts of free will reported.
Epictetus
It's a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Seneca
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
S.E.A.L.s Philosophy
You can't live fully unless you can live fully now.
Alan Watts
Stars wear no concealment.
Marcus Aurelius
There are none so deaf as those who refuse to hear!
Nikos Kazantzakis
Those who sleep are also hard at work.
Heraclitus
True good fortune is what you make for yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
To lift and autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.
Sun Tzu
How will you get free of the Devil if you don’t become Devil and a half?
Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)
You think because you carry rifles you carry justice too?
Nikos Kazantzakis (The Fratricides)
I've never been afraid of life, so why should I fear death?
Nikos Kazantzakis (The Fratricides)
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Black care rarely sits behind a rider who's pace is fast enough.
Theodore Roosevelt
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
No one moment is about one thing.
Emily Blunt
Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime & Punishment)
If the water chokes you - what will you wash it down with?
Aristotle
Three Kinds of Souls, Three Prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break!
Nikos Kazantzakis (Report to Greco)
Nothing to fear in God. Nothing to feel in death. Good can be attained. Evil can be endured.
Diogenes of Oenoanda
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Immanuel Kant
Boredom is the other side of creativity.
Alan Watts
I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never half ass two things. Whole ass one thing.
Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
Every man worthy of being called a son of man bears his cross and mounts his Golgotha.
Nikos Kazantzakis (Report to Greco)
What did your face look like before your parents were born?
Wumen Huikai 無門慧開
'No' is no to one thing. 'Yes' is no to a lot of things.
37signals
If communication can fail, it will. If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just the way which does the most harm.
Osmo Wiio
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
True philosophers make dying their profession.
Socrates
I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
What's coming is coming and we'll meet it when it does.
J.K. Rowling
Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J.K. Rowling
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling