We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
—Byron Katie (American Speaker)
By correcting our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
—Buddhist Teaching
The rich add riches to riches; the poor add years to years.
—Chinese Proverb
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
—Persian Proverb
The tests of life are not meant to break you, but to make you.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)
Look before you leap.
—Common Proverb
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
—Zhuang Zhou (Chinese Philosopher)
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
—Persius (Roman Poet)
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)
The true battlefield is within.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)
The desire for more and more wealth is dangerous. Cultivate the good sense to give up your desires. Wealth is the result of past deeds. Therefore be content with what you have.
—Adi Shankaracharya (Indian Hindu Philosopher)
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be|suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)
When you think you can nail someone with your argument, take a breath & see if you can phrase it as a face-saving question.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)
If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
—Charles Cooley (American Sociologist)
The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
—Thomas de Quincey (English Essayist)
Every man who has become great owes his achievement to incessant toil.
—Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Indian Engineer)
Self-understanding, like happiness, is never fully achieved. It’s an on-going pursuit and sometimes excessive explicit focus hurts the cause.
—Ben Casnocha (American Entrepreneur, Investor)
Where your heart is, there your heart be.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)