My Favourite Quotes
A great quote contains a wealth of wisdom in a single line. Here are some of my favorite quotes which I visit often and they help me keep things in perspective.
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
- Alexis Carrel
"Solitude is the school of genius."
- Edward Gibbon
“One who is everywhere is nowhere.”
- Seneca
“It’s one of the toughest things in the world when somebody has hurt you, and you can find within yourself the strength to begin the whole process of forgiveness. And it turns out to be the gift to you, not so much the gift to the person you’re forgiving.”
- Dr. William Orr
“If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.”
- Seneca
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“There is a great deal of difference between what is first in time and what is first in importance.”
- Seneca
We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start."
- Anonymous
"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter."
- Malcolm Gladwell
“The happy man is one who is freed from both fear and desire because of the gift of reason.”
- Seneca
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.”
- Seneca
"The definition of happiness is the full use of your powers, along the lines of excellence."
- John F. Kennedy
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments."
- Abraham Maslow
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
- Albert Ellis
“Man will live ill who will not know how to die well.”
- Seneca
“When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.”
- Shakespeare
"To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking."
- Johann von Goethe
“Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible— by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.”
- Epictetus
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
- Dalai Lama
“We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
- Marcus Aurelius
"Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
- Vince Lombardi
"The only true Voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different land with the same pair of eyes but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for things which he has not. But rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil."
- Marcus Aurelius
"There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead."
- Ben Franklin
"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity."
- Thomas Carlyle
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that he is who is being asked."
- Viktor Frankl
“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
- Seneca
"Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will - then your life will flow well."
- Epictetus
'It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.’
- Seneca
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
- Novalis
"I want to put a ding in the universe."
- Steve Jobs
"It is easy to praise Providence for anything that may happen if you have two qualities: a complete view of what has actually happened in each instance and a sense of gratitude. Without gratitude what is the point of seeing, and without seeing what is the object of gratitude?"
- Epictetus
"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."
- Seneca
"Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”
- Seneca
"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Bruce Lee
- Alexis Carrel
"Solitude is the school of genius."
- Edward Gibbon
“One who is everywhere is nowhere.”
- Seneca
“It’s one of the toughest things in the world when somebody has hurt you, and you can find within yourself the strength to begin the whole process of forgiveness. And it turns out to be the gift to you, not so much the gift to the person you’re forgiving.”
- Dr. William Orr
“If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.”
- Seneca
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“There is a great deal of difference between what is first in time and what is first in importance.”
- Seneca
We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start."
- Anonymous
"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter."
- Malcolm Gladwell
“The happy man is one who is freed from both fear and desire because of the gift of reason.”
- Seneca
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.”
- Seneca
"The definition of happiness is the full use of your powers, along the lines of excellence."
- John F. Kennedy
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments."
- Abraham Maslow
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
- Albert Ellis
“Man will live ill who will not know how to die well.”
- Seneca
“When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.”
- Shakespeare
"To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking."
- Johann von Goethe
“Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible— by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.”
- Epictetus
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
- Dalai Lama
“We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
- Marcus Aurelius
"Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
- Vince Lombardi
"The only true Voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different land with the same pair of eyes but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for things which he has not. But rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil."
- Marcus Aurelius
"There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead."
- Ben Franklin
"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity."
- Thomas Carlyle
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that he is who is being asked."
- Viktor Frankl
“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
- Seneca
"Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will - then your life will flow well."
- Epictetus
'It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.’
- Seneca
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
- Novalis
"I want to put a ding in the universe."
- Steve Jobs
"It is easy to praise Providence for anything that may happen if you have two qualities: a complete view of what has actually happened in each instance and a sense of gratitude. Without gratitude what is the point of seeing, and without seeing what is the object of gratitude?"
- Epictetus
"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."
- Seneca
"Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”
- Seneca
"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Knowledge will give you power
But character will give you respect."
- Bruce Lee
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
- Elon Musk
"Try not to become a man of success
- Elon Musk
"Try not to become a man of success
But rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
"One cannot learn that which they already know."
- Epictetus
"If you resist change, you resist life."
- Sadhguru
"Don't just go through life, grow through life."
- Sadhguru
"Don't just go through life, grow through life."
- Gaur Gopal Das
"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."
- Steve Jobs
“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.”
- Confucius
“Consider who you are. Above all, a human being, carrying no greater power than your own reasoned choice, which oversees all other things, and is free from any other master.”
- Epictetus
“Success comes to the lowly and to the poorly talented, but the special characteristic of a great person is to triumph over the disasters and panics of human life.”
- Seneca
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
- Aristotle
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect ."
- Mark Twain
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind."
- Dr. Seuss
"What you seek is seeking you."
- Rumi
- Rumi
"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Those who do not know how to fight worry die young."
- Dr. Alexis Carrel
"What you have in your head decides what you have in your hand."
- Robert T. Kiyosaki
"The quality of your thoughts decide the quality of your life."
- Zig Ziglar
"Ideation without execution is delusion."
- Robin Sharma
"He who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary "
- Seneca
- Seneca
'Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage'
-Ana'i's Nin
"When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice."
-(Ancient Sanskrit Saying)
"The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live."
- Norman Cousins
"There is more to life than just increasing it's speed."
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there in no happiness without action."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."
- Steve Jobs
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have build again it."
- Jalaluddin Rumi
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."
- Jim Rohn
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it."
- Napoleon Hill
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
- Alan Lakein
"We always have time enough,
If we will but use it aright."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Steve Jobs
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no Matter what your task may be."
- Og Mandino
"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act."
- Orison Swett Marden
"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets."
- Nido Qubein
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
"You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish
Yourself if you forget the errand."
- Woodrow Wilson
"It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about?"
- Thoreau
"Fortune is not on the side of the faint - hearted."
- Sophocles
"There is nothing so useless as doing effciently that which should not be done at all."
- Peter Drucker
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle
"Change yourself:
You are in control."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."
- Steve Jobs
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't worry this is not the end. I'll keep you posted frequently whenever I come across such amazing quotes. Do visit the blog frequently for latest updates.
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