Image of Swami Vivekananda
Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Ignorance
Image of Tony Robbins
If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Appreciation
Image of Adam Smith
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
- Adam Smith
Image of Albert Camus
All I know of morality I learned from football.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Football
Image of Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Bible
Image of Dallas Willard
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
- Dallas Willard
Collection: Hair
Image of Jack Welch
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch
Collection: Business
Image of Napoleon Hill
If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Attitude
Image of Dolly Parton
I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.
- Dolly Parton
Collection: Trying
Image of John Wesley
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
- John Wesley
Collection: Humility
Image of Larry Wall
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
- Larry Wall
Collection: Inspiring
Image of Theodore Isaac Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Image of Francis Bacon
To know truly is to know by causes.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Causes
Image of Marco Pierre White
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.
- Marco Pierre White
Collection: Mother
Image of Leonardo da Vinci
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Collection: Lying
Image of Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
Collection: Education
Image of Ron Kaufman
Preparation clears a pathway for success.
- Ron Kaufman
Collection: Service Culture
Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collection: Death
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Art
Image of Mooji
You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.
- Mooji
Collection: Inspiration
Image of Ray Kroc
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
- Ray Kroc
Collection: Helping Others
Image of Douglas Adams
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Hair
Image of Rumi
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
- Rumi
Collection: Heart
Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Tony Robbins
With goals you can create the future in advance.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Sports
Image of Alfred North Whitehead
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Ignatius of Loyola
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
- Ignatius of Loyola
Collection: Believe
Image of Sidney Sheldon
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
- Sidney Sheldon
Collection: Environmental
Image of David Levithan
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
- David Levithan
Collection: Air
Image of Gabby Douglas
If we set our minds, we can achieve anything.
- Gabby Douglas
Collection: Mind
Image of Steven Pressfield
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
- Steven Pressfield
Collection: Children
Image of Thomas Fuller
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
- Thomas Fuller
Image of Paul the Apostle
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Paul the Apostle
Collection: Husband
Image of Eckhart Tolle
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Karma
Image of Ingvar Kamprad
What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.
- Ingvar Kamprad
Collection: Running
Image of Rory Vaden
Time is not money. Time is worth way more than money.
- Rory Vaden
Collection: Way
Image of David Letterman
Life experience is the best teacher.
- David Letterman
Collection: Teacher
Image of Arthur C. Clarke
Science is the only religion of mankind.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Collection: Mankind
Image of Nelson Mandela
We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Attitude
Image of Napoleon Hill
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Thinking
Image of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Collection: Success
Image of Harry S. Truman
An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
- Harry S. Truman
Collection: Opportunity
Image of George Soros
Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
- George Soros
Collection: Weak Points
Image of Ikujiro Nonaka
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.
- Ikujiro Nonaka
Collection: Economy
Image of Albert Camus
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Life
Image of Snoop Dogg
My mind on my money, my money on my mind.
- Snoop Dogg
Collection: Rap
Image of Raymond Loewy
Design is too important to be left to designers.
- Raymond Loewy
Collection: Design
Image of W. Edwards Deming
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
- W. Edwards Deming
Collection: Motivation
Image of Jeanette Jenkins
One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.
- Jeanette Jenkins
Collection: Powerful