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Warren Buffett photo

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Contexte: It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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Peter F. Drucker photo

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Variante: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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Eckhart Tolle photo

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Emile Zola photo

“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Source: Le Naturalisme Au Theatre

Anaïs Nin photo

“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
Variante: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Albert Einstein photo

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949), p. 291 http://books.google.com/books?id=fsvXYpOSowkC&q=%22garbage+man%22#v=snippet&q=%22garbage%20man%22&f=false
Attributed in posthumous publications

Blaise Pascal photo

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Variante: Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Charles Bukowski photo

“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”

Charles Bukowski livre Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny

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Alfred Adler photo

“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist

Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)

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Oscar Wilde photo

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Un peu de sincérité est une chose dangereuse, et une grande quantité est absolument fatale.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

Napoleon Hill photo

“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Variante: The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Charles Bukowski photo

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

Winston S. Churchill photo

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Winston S. Churchill livre The Second World War

In the House of Commons, February 28, 1906 speech South African native races http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1906/feb/28/south-african-native-races#S4V0152P0_19060228_HOC_307
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variante: Where there is great power there is great responsibility
Contexte: I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility.

Robert Walser photo
Eckhart Tolle photo
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Oscar Wilde photo

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Lord Goring, Act III
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

Arthur Conan Doyle livre The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

William Shakespeare photo

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variante: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar

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Pablo Picasso citation: “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Pablo Picasso photo

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Winston S. Churchill photo

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
Ne m'interrompez pas pendant que je vous interromps.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Gabriel García Márquez photo

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

Gabriel García Márquez livre L'Amour aux temps du choléra

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Rabindranath Tagore photo

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service is joy.”
J'ai dormi et j'ai rêvé que la vie était une joie. Je me suis réveillé et j'ai vu que la vie était un service rendu. J'ai agi et voyez, le service est la joie. Ellen Sturgis Hooper:"Je me suis endormi, et j'ai rêvé que la vie était merveille; Je me suis réveillé, et je me suis rendu compte que la vie était tâche à exécuter. "

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Quoted often without citation http://www.tagorefoundationinternational.com http://rupkatha.com/V2/n4/11Tagorephilosohy.pdf
Compare this verse verse written by Ellen Sturgis Hooper:
::"I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty."
Disputed

Stephen King photo

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

Stephen King livre Ça

Source: It (1986)

Ludwig Van Beethoven photo

“Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Fahre fort, übe nicht allein die Kunst, sondern dringe auch in ihr Inneres; sie verdient es, denn nur die Kunst und die Wissenschaft erhöhen den Menschen bis zur Gottheit.
Letter to Emilie, July 17, 1812.
Quoted in Musical news, Vol. 3 (1892), p. 627

Albert Schweitzer photo

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variante: Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

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Malcolm X photo

“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964) http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1964-malcolm-x-s-speech-founding-rally-organization-afro-american-unity
Variant: We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
As quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Contexte: We have formed an organization known as the Organization of Afro-American Unity which has the same aim and objective to fight whoever gets in our way, to bring about the complete independence of people of African descent here in the Western Hemisphere, and first here in the United States, and bring about the freedom of these people by any means necessary.
That's our motto. We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.

Emily Brontë photo

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”

Emily Brontë livre Les Hauts de Hurlevent

Source: Wuthering Heights

George Orwell photo

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Review of A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read, Poetry Quarterly (Winter 1945)
Contexte: Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. This is an illusion, and one should recognise it as such, but one ought also to stick to one's own world-view, even at the price of seeming old-fashioned: for that world-view springs out of experiences that the younger generation has not had, and to abandon it is to kill one's intellectual roots.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh photo

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh livre Gift from the Sea

Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932 (1973), p. 3
Source: Gift from the Sea
Contexte: I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.

Pablo Picasso photo

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

1950s
Source: Sergei Eisenstein (1957), Film form [and]: The film sense, p. 127.

Winston S. Churchill photo
Bruce Lee photo

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Aristotle photo

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Ernest Hemingway photo

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
Écrivez avec force et avec clarté ce qui fait mal.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Jodi Picoult photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Avec la liberté, les livres, les fleurs et la lune, que faut-il de plus pour être heureux ?

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Erich Maria Remarque photo

“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”

Erich Maria Remarque livre All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Louisa May Alcott photo
Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”

Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

Source: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

John Wooden photo

“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you’ve made the effort, do the best of what you’re capable.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)

Robert T. Kiyosaki photo
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Joseph Addison photo

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

No. 147.
The Tatler (1711–1714)
Variante: A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body
Contexte: Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Mark Twain photo

“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

This appears on the opening placard of the film The Equalizer, attributing it to Twain, but there is no evidence that Twain wrote it. A precursor is found in Taylor Hartman's self-help book The Character Code (first published 1991), where it is not attributed to Twain: "The three most significant days in your life are: 1. The day you were born. 2. The day you find out why you were born. 3. The day you discover how to contribute the gift you were born to give" ( Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=gIKCxWxNmeMC&pg=PA147&dq=%22day+you+find+out+why%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijrJzc84vLAhUJzGMKHajvADEQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=%22day%20you%20find%20out%20why%22&f=false)
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Oscar Wilde photo

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

Oscar Wilde L'Éventail de Lady Windermere

Lord Darlington, Act I
Variante: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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Robert Frost photo

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s

Richard Bach photo

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variante: if you argue for your limitations they are yours
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Desmond Tutu photo

“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Often attributed to Desmond Tutu, actual source is G. W. F Hegel: What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)
Misattributed

Madonna photo

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

http://www.studyworld.com/newsite/Quotes/QuoteByTopic.asp?i=Dream

C.G. Jung photo

“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

C.G. Jung livre Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Bob Marley photo

“You have to be someone.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Jane Austen photo

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Source: Jane Austen's Letters

George Carlin photo

“It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Life Is Worth Losing (2005)
Contexte: They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club.... The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.... And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.

Ernest Hemingway citation: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)
Source: Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
Contexte: An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

William Shakespeare photo

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Variante: Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

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George Orwell photo

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
La double pensée est le pouvoir de garder à l'esprit simultanément deux croyances contradictoires, et de les accepter toutes deux.

George Orwell livre 1984

Source: 1984

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 179
The Gay Science (1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow photo

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Variante: The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Aristotle citation: “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Aristotle photo

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Albert Einstein photo

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

The original: "Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing. That is, if the one giving the example is not saying to himself, 'Behold I am giving an example." That spoils it. Anyone thinking of the example he will give to others has lost his simplicity. Only as a man has simplicity can his example influence others" is a quote by Albert Schweitzer, from a 1952 interview in United Nations World magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=qTAoAAAAMAAJ&q=%22example+is+not+the+main+thing%22&dq=%22example+is+not+the+main+thing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjz7f_2v6vMAhUJxmMKHeEAB-QQ6AEIHDAA. Not attributed to Einstein until the 1990s https://books.google.com/books?id=JdRZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22example+is+not+the+main+thing%22+einstein&dq=%22example+is+not+the+main+thing%22+einstein&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif56qcwqvMAhXGMGMKHST5DRIQ6AEIHTAA.
Misattributed

Eckhart Tolle photo

“I love you still,
Against my will.”

Sarah Kane livre Crave

Source: Crave