Hard, hard, fast
Work hard, play hard, move fast. Dr. Robert J. "Doctor Bob" Shillman –American engineer, businessman and philanthropist, founder and former chairman and CCO of Cognex Corporation (b. 1946), Quotations book 2026
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Faith
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. attributed to D. Elton Trueblood - American author, philosopher and theologian (1900-1994), Quotations book 2026
Recognize
You have to listen to the music of life. Most people only hear the dissonances. based on Theodor Fontane - German writer (1819-1898), freely adapted from a letter, published in "Werke, Schriften und Briefe. 4. Abteilung", Volume II (1978), Quotations book 2026
Scientific truth
A great scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck - German physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1918 (1858-1947), from "Scientific Autobiography: And Other Papers" (pothumously 1948, Engl. 1950), Quotations book...
Love of money or love of duty
I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money. Steve Jobs - American company founder: Apple (1955-2011), in the PBS Documentary "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" (1996), Quotations book...
Liberté
Je n'ai jamais cru que la liberté de l'homme consistât à faire ce qu'il veut, mais bien à ne jamais faire ce qu'il ne veut pas. Jacques Rousseau - écrivain et philosophe français (1712-1778), de "Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire" (1782), Brochure de citation 2026 I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants to do, but rather in never doing what he does not want...
Learn
You cannot stop the waves. But you can learn to surf them! Bjørn Dunkerbeck- Danish-born Dutch wind surfer, 42 times world champion (b. 1969), Quotations book 2026
Goals
You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. James P. Clear – American writer and speaker (b. 1986), from "Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results" (2018), Quotations book 2026
Disciplina vel misericordia
There is much wanting both to discipline and to compassion, if one be had without the other. Disciplina vel misericordia multum destituitur, si una sine altera teneatur. Pope Gregory I - aka Gregory the Great, Roman theologian, , 590-604 Holy Father, one of the four Latin doctors of the Church(etwa 540-604), from "The Book of Pastoral Rule", chapter VI "Ut sit rector bene agentibus per...
Decide right
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. C. S. Lewis - British writer (1898-1963), from "Mere Christianity" (1952), Quotations book...
Courage
La vie rétrécit ou s'étend proportionnellement à notre courage. Anaïs Nin - de son vrai nom Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, écrivaine américaine d'origine française (1903-1977), extrait de son journal, paru dans "The Diary of Anais Nin", volume 3, 1939-1944 (1971), , Brochure de citation 2026 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anaïs Nin - born...
Compliments
I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat. Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), from a letter to Gertrude Natkin, 2 March 1906, Quotations book 2026
Act instead of talk
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. The bible, Proverbs 14:23 (NIV), Quotations book 2026
Sell the hole not the drill
People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. marketing wisdom, quoted by Prof. Theodore Levitt - German-born American economist, coined the term "globalization" (1925-2006), Quotations book 2026
Verdad
Es mejor decir una verdad incómoda que una mentira confortable. [...] Si el trago es amargo, mejor tomarlo de una vez. Javier Gerardo Milei - Economista y político argentino, desde 2023 presidente de Argentina (n. 1970), en un discurso en el Festival Juvenil Fratelli D'Italia Atreju, Italia (14.12.2024), Libro de citas 2026 It is better to tell an uncomfortable truth than a comfortable lie....
Deeds instead of words
The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see: In compliments you're both proficient, But might, the while, more useful be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – German poet (1749-18329, from "Faust: Part One", "Prelude at the Theatre, Manager (1808), Quotations book 2026
Risk
No progress without risk. Dr. Hendrik Leber - German investment and asset manager and consultant (*1967), title of the 22nd ACATIS Value Conference (16.5.2025), Quotations book 2026
Treading equally or making equal
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, "a new form of servitude". Friedrich August von Hayek - Austrian economist and social philosopher, Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences 1974 (1899-1992), based on Alexis de...
Thinking
Aucun problème ne peut résister à l'assaut de la pensée soutenue. attribué à Voltaire - né François Marie Arouet, philosophe et écrivain français (1694-1778), Brochure de citation 2026 No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. attributed to Voltaire - born François Marie Arouet, French philosopher and writer (1694-1778), Quotations book...
Count
Don't count the days, make the days count. Muhammad Ali - born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., American boxer (1942-2016), in a message on "Twitter" (now "X", 29.01.2011), Quotations book 2026