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Albert Einstein Fotografia
René Descartes Fotografia
Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”
Symbol seksu staje się rzeczą, a ja nienawidzę być rzeczą.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Kontekst: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.

William Faulkner Fotografia
T.S. Eliot Fotografia

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

T.S. Eliot książka Four Quartets

Źródło: Four Quartets

F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Źródło: The Great Gatsby

Erich Fromm Fotografia
Leo Tolstoy Fotografia
Pearl S.  Buck Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”

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

Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
1940s

Jean Paul Sartre Fotografia

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Leo Tolstoy Fotografia
Jane Austen Fotografia

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

Jane Austen książka Duma i uprzedzenie

Źródło: Pride and Prejudice

Leo Tolstoy Fotografia

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”

Leo Tolstoy książka Anna Karenina

Wariant: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Źródło: Anna Karenina

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia
Francis Bacon Fotografia

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Nadzieja jest dobrym śniadaniem, lecz kiepską wieczerzą/ale złą kolacją.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Wariant: Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Fotografia

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

Dr. Seuss Fotografia

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Dr. Seuss książka Happy Birthday to You!

Wariant: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Źródło: Happy Birthday to You!

Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Historia będzie dla mnie łaskawa, ponieważ mam zamiar ją napisać.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia
Anaïs Nin Fotografia
Confucius Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

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

As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
Attributed in posthumous publications
Wariant: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero you're the beautiful one it's society who's ugly.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed

Richard Bach Fotografia

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Źródło: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

Thomas Jefferson Fotografia

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
Misattributed
Wariant: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Wariant: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Robert Southey Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia
George Bernard Shaw Fotografia

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
Największym problemem w komunikacji jest iluzja, że miał on miejsce.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/,
Misattributed

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
Żyję dla sukcesu, nie aby zadowolić ciebie lub kogokolwiek innego.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson książka The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

Vincent Van Gogh Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

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

Wariant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Guy De Maupassant cytat: “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Guy De Maupassant Fotografia

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

"The Love of Long Ago"
Źródło: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Kontekst: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

André Breton Fotografia

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Źródło: The Magnetic Fields

John Dewey Fotografia

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”

John Dewey książka Democracy and Education

Źródło: Democracy and Education

Robert A. Heinlein Fotografia
Pearl S.  Buck Fotografia

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"To the Young"
Źródło: To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Charles Darwin Fotografia

“The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”

Charles Darwin książka The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 101 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=114&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

John Steinbeck Fotografia

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

John Steinbeck książka The Winter of Our Discontent

Źródło: The Winter of Our Discontent

Marcus Aurelius Fotografia
Woody Allen Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia
Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

First mentioned as "Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking and using our potential." according to Quote Investigator in the 1981 book The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery by Liane Cordes, Quote Page 89, Hazelden Publishing, Center City, Minnesota. For further research on this quote see: Quote Investigator (August 31, 2013): Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential Winston Churchill? Liane Cordes? Liane Cardes? Apocryphal? Archived http://archive.is/E0M12 on June 2, 2020.
Źródło: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/21/effort/ from the original

John Milton Fotografia

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

John Milton książka Raj utracony

Źródło: Paradise Lost

André Gide Fotografia
Jean Paul Sartre Fotografia
Marilyn Monroe Fotografia
Helen Keller Fotografia
Martin Luther King, Jr. Fotografia

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Ernest Hemingway Fotografia

“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

Ernest Hemingway książka Stary człowiek i morze

Wariant: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Źródło: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Elie Wiesel Fotografia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fotografia
Marcus Tullius Cicero Fotografia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fotografia
Woody Allen Fotografia

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Charles Bukowski Fotografia
Thomas Jefferson Fotografia

“I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications

Robert F. Kennedy Fotografia

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

"Conflict in Vietnam and at Home" speech http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/filmmore/ps_ksu.html at Kansas State University on March 18, 1968 as part of the Alfred M. Landon Lectures on Public Issues.

Sigmund Freud Fotografia

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

Sigmund Freud książka Civilization and Its Discontents

Źródło: Civilization and Its Discontents

P.G. Wodehouse Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“Shallow men believe in luck.”
Płytcy mężczyźni wierzą w szczęście.

Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Ray Bradbury Fotografia

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

Ray Bradbury książka Zen in the Art of Writing

Źródło: Zen in the Art of Writing

Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Dla siebie samego. Jestem optymistą. Bycie kimkolwiek innym, nie zdaje się być do czegokolwiek przydatne.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Henry David Thoreau Fotografia

“Things do not change; we change.”
Rzeczy się nie zmieniają. Zmieniamy się my.

Henry David Thoreau książka Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Źródło: Walden

Albert Einstein Fotografia
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Fotografia
Leo Tolstoy Fotografia
Amelia Earhart Fotografia

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”
Najtrudniejsza jest decyzja by działać. Reszta to jedynie wytrwałość. Lęki to papierowe tygrysy. Możesz zrobić wszystko, co zdecydujesz. Możesz działać, aby zmienić i kontrolować swoje życie i metodę. Proces jest nagrodą samą w sobie.

Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American aviation pioneer and author

The Official Website of Amelia Earhart - Quotes http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/quotes.html

Herta Müller Fotografia

“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”

Herta Müller książka The Hunger Angel

Źródło: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68

George S. Patton Fotografia

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"

Sophia Loren Fotografia

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Wariant: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

George S. Patton Fotografia

“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

As quoted in Textbook of Phacoemulsification (1988) by William F. Maloney and Lincoln Grindle, p. 79

Henry Ward Beecher Fotografia

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

Khalil Gibran Fotografia

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

Sand and Foam (1926)

Babe Ruth Fotografia

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”

Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player

The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
Disputed
Źródło: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Źródło: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth

Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson książka Nature

Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Wariant: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.

George Marshall Fotografia

“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”

George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff

As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm

William Ellery Channing (poet) Fotografia
Willa Cather Fotografia

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”

Willa Cather książka Death Comes for the Archbishop

Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Ralph Waldo Emerson cytat: “The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Fotografia

“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor

As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
undated quotes

Chinmayananda Saraswati Fotografia

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet

Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

Khalil Gibran Fotografia

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

As quoted in Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment (2007) by Lisa Ford, p. 44

Tenzin Gyatso Fotografia

“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.

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