Quote Collection

Literature

Here is a collection of quotes I’ve made over the past few years.

Quotes are awesome, because they summarize and condense a lot of thoughts, messages, feelings, ideas, and wisdom in just a few lines.

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford –


“Do not wait; the time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill –


“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
– Ayn Rand –


“You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.”
– T.S. Eliot –


“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne –


“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain –


“Strength does not come from physical capacity.  It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi –


“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi –


“Everyone is a genius… But if you judge a fish on it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing that it is stupid.”
– Albert Einstein –


“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
– Sir Winston Churchill –


“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
– Henry Ford –


“If you want to be a master at anything, study what the masters have done before you. Learn to do what they have done. Have the courage to do it. And, you can be a master just like them.”
– Author unknown –


“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”
– Alvin Toffler –


“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes –


“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi


“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi –


“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt –


“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
– Napoleon Hill –


“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all,
but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
– Henry Ford –


“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas H. Huxley –


“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –


“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
– Buddha –


“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.”
– Einstein –


Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower-


He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
– Aristotle –


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
– Aristotle –


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
– Albert Einstein –


Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
– Albert Einstein –


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