
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”
Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.”
As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925)
Variant translation: The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
As quoted in Ionia, a Quest (1954) by Freya Stark, p. 94
“Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.”
“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
“The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.”
Popular Fallacies: XIII, That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)