If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs … If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you … If you can wait and not be tired by waiting … If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim … Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it … Rudyard Kipling – Englisch writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 (1865-1936), from his poem...
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. Sir William Osler – Canadian physician, physiologist and medicine historian (1849-1919), from his essay “Aequanimitas” (1889)
The way to be successful is to do what you love and love what you do. Leon G. Cooperman – American investor and company founder: Omega Advisors, Inc. (b. 1943), Quotations book 2024
It is better indeed to limp along the way than to walk strongly apart from the way. Melius est enim in uia claudicare, quam praeter uiam fortiter ambulare. Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian theologian and philosopher, one of the four Latin Doctor of Church (354-430), from his sermon 141,4
Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. Elon Musk – South African-born American engineer, designer and founding entrepreneur: Tesla (b. 1971), in an interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson (16 August 2016), Quotations book 2024
Those who enjoy the present will have a wonderful past in the future. motivation – Quotations book 2024
Staying positive doesn’t mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on hard days you know there are better days to come. motivation
One of my hobbies is collecting quotations. Socrates said employ your time in reading great people’s lives so you can learn in a very simple way what it took them all their life to do. The best way I found to do that is in a quote. Sometimes in a quote you can capture what a person took a whole life to learn, incredible wisdom through that. I have about 8,000 quotes on my computer and I log...
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ronald E. Osborn – American teacher of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and writer (1917-1998), in “Forbes”-Magazine (March 15, 1945)
Le but de la dispute ou de la discussion ne doit pas être la victoire, mais l’amélioration. Joseph Joubert – essayiste français (1754-1824), de ses notes, publiées dans “Pensées, maximes, essais et correspondance de J. Joubert” (1842), Brochure de citation 2024 The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert – French...
Before you say you can’t do something, try it. slogan of the Toyoda family Sakichi Toyoda – Japanese inventor and industrialist, founder: Toyota Industries Corporation, Ltd. (1867-1930) Kiichirō Toyoda – Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO Toyota Motor Corp. (1894-1952)
Have your money where the owners are. Mario Gabelli – American stock investor, investment advisor, and financial analyst, founder, chairman, and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors, GAMCO (b. 1942)
God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile. Max Lucado – American author and evagelicale theologean, minister at Oak Hills Church (b. 1955), from “Safe in the Shepherd’s Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23” (2001), Quotations book 2024
Everything can be improved. Clarence W. Barron – American financial journalist, one of the most influential figures in the history of publishing company “Dow Jones & Company” (1855-1928), the Swedish compnay EQT has expendet the quote: “Everything can always be improved at all times”, Quotations book...
I want you to be all that you can be. Charles G. Koch – American businessman, chairman and CEO of Koch Industries (b. 1935), in his introduction to “Principle Based Management™” (2022)
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett – Irish writer, Nobel prize in literature 1969 (1906–1989), frim “Worstward Ho” (1983), Quotations book 2024
The future belongs to the curious by profession. Prof. Albert Sorel – French historian and writer (1842-1906), quoted by his student Henri-Pierre Roché (French writer, 1879-1959) in his book “Jules et Jim” (1953), adapted into a film in 1962 by François Truffaut (French film director, 1932-1984) L’avenir est aux curieux de profession. Prof. Albert Sorel –...
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Edward Hodnett – British writer (1901-1984), from “The Art of Problem Solving: How to Improve Your Methods” (1955)
Every problem that is interesting, is also soluble. Prof. David Deutsch – Israeli-born British physicist (b. 1953), in his response to the Edge Annual Question: “What is Your Law?”, www.edge.org. (2004)