Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. Nelson Mandela – South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, 1994-99 president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013), from a letter to Makhaya Ntini on his 100th cricket test (17 December 2009)
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. wisdom, falsely attributed to Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), could not be verified by the Mark Twain Museum
If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about it, … you don’t have to have some master plan for how things are going to play out. Mark Zuckerberg – American company founder: facebook (b. 1984), from an interview with Jessica Livingston for "Startup School" (October 16th, 2020)
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. Nevertheless, you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve. Charlie Munger –...
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph J. Campbell – American writer, Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College (1904-1987), quoted by Diane K. Osbon in "Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion" (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. pg. 18.)
I"ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I"ve touched. Prof. Clayton M. Christensen - American American academic and business consultant, bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1952-2020), from "How Will You Measure Your Life?" ("Harvard Business Review", 07/08 2010)
A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill - American writer: "Think And Grow Rich" (1883-1970), Quotations book 2020
You"re lucky in life if you have the right heroes. ... Pick out a few heroes. There"s nothing like the right ones. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), Quotations book 2020
If you would live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein - German physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955)
Hope is the virtue of a heart that does not close itself in darkness or remain locked in the past, but looks towards the future. Pope Francis - born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since 2013 Holy Father (b. 1936), in a "Twitter" message from 20th September 2017 (since 2023 "X")
Life is charming, my friend, if you but look at it through the right spectacles. Alexandre Dumas fils - French writer (1824-1895), from "The Camelia-lady" ("La dame aux camélias", 1848) La vie est charmante, mon cher, c"est selon le verre par lequel on la regarde. Alexandre Dumas fils - écrivain français (1824-1895), de "La dame aux camélias"...
We feel noble intentions should be checked periodically against results. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), in the "Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report 1999" (2000)
An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan. Warren Buffett - American Value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)
Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others find it in a person. Beau C. Taplin – Australian poet (b. 1988), from his poem "The Explorers", in "Worlds of You" (2018)
People [...] grow five thousand roses in the same garden and yet do not find what they are looking for. [...] What they are looking for could be found in one single rose. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – French writer and aviator (1900-1944), from "The Little Prince", Chapter XXV (1943) Les hommes [...] cultivent cinq mille roses dans un même jardin... et ils n"y trouvent pas ce qu"ils cherchent....
Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They are attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity, you’re really looking for a person. Reid G. Hoffman – American entrepreneur, co-founder LinkedIn (b. 1967), Quotations book 2019
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. John Henry Cardinal Newman - English Catholic clergyman (1801-1890), from "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine", Chapter 1, Part 7 (1845), Quotations book 2019
He who endeavours to ascend to the highest place, rises by degrees or steps, and not by leaps. Qui summum locum ascendere nititur, gradibus vel passibus non autem saltibus elevatur. 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 his letter to Mellitus (Epistel XI, 56, 18.7.601), Quotations book...
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging! adage, often attributed to William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers - American humorist (1879-1935), could not be verified by the Will Rogers Memorial Museum & Birthplace Ranch