Image of Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Image of Queen Elizabeth II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
- Queen Elizabeth II
Image of Solomon
He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
- Solomon
Collection: Wise
Image of Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Collection: Firsts
Image of Robert Greene
Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Powerful
Image of Charles Bukowski
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
- Charles Bukowski
Collection: Men
Image of Isabel Allende
I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.
- Isabel Allende
Collection: Thinking
Image of Abdu'l-Bahá
If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
- Abdu'l-Bahá
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Thomas Sowell
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Stupid
Image of Ray Bradbury
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
- Ray Bradbury
Collection: And Love
Image of Jürgen Moltmann
God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.
- Jürgen Moltmann
Collection: Grief
Image of Nel Noddings
The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.
- Nel Noddings
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Energy
Image of Epictetus
Act your part with honor.
- Epictetus
Collection: Honor
Image of Shawn Achor
Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.
- Shawn Achor
Collection: Brain
Image of Bill Gates
Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Team
Image of David Kim
The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.
- David Kim
Collection: Missionary
Image of Marcus Aurelius
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Pain
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Image of Paulo Coelho
Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Believe
Image of Brian Tracy
Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.
- Brian Tracy
Collection: Goal
Image of Anne Lamott
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Writing
Image of Alexander Graham Bell
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Collection: Great
Image of Steve Lawson
The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.
- Steve Lawson
Collection: Giving Up
Image of Mireille Guiliano
Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.
- Mireille Guiliano
Image of Michael Jordan
I would tell players to relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.
- Michael Jordan
Collection: Basketball
Image of Ravi Zacharias
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
- Ravi Zacharias
Image of Epicurus
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .
- Epicurus
Collection: Self
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collection: Freedom
Image of Adi Shankara
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.
- Adi Shankara
Collection: Teaching
Image of Jack Canfield
Repetition is the key to real learning.
- Jack Canfield
Collection: Real
Image of Rick Riordan
With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Naps
Image of Louis Zamperini
I was raised to face any challenge.
- Louis Zamperini
Collection: Challenges
Image of Epictetus
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
- Epictetus
Collection: Littles
Image of W. Edwards Deming
Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
- W. Edwards Deming
Collection: Forever
Image of Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato
Collection: Philosophical
Image of Swami Vivekananda
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Jon Gordon
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.
- Jon Gordon
Collection: Commitment
Image of James Redfield
Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!
- James Redfield
Collection: Energy
Image of Albert Camus
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Earth
Image of Stephen King
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
- Stephen King
Collection: Leadership
Image of Yogi Berra
Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.
- Yogi Berra
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Kirk Douglas
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
- Kirk Douglas
Image of Karl Marx
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Men
Image of George Polya
It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.
- George Polya
Collection: Education
Image of Adyashanti
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
- Adyashanti
Collection: Moving
Image of Johannes Kepler
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.
- Johannes Kepler
Collection: Book
Image of Henry James
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
- Henry James
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: Love