“Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.”
Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player
Recommended quotes page 94
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patientia comes est sapientiae
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
De Patientia http://www.augustinus.it/latino/pazienza/index.htm chapter 5
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Also found with the alternative spelling: Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end<br>Found anonymously on Usenet in 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.support.divorce/gKiyfcAYreo/jjuc6KTu_NAJ. First known attribution to Lennon is from 2011 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=stow-ma-apple-barn/45MNk9KiGsY/vaq6pr8hgI0J. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Variant: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“A leader leads by example not by force.”
Sun Tzu book The Art of War
Source: The Art of War, Chapter IX · Movement and Development of Troops
“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Variant: It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”
Reinhold Messner (1944) Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer
“It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.”
Anton LaVey (1930–1997) Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible
The Nine Satanic Sins (1987)
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: Heliogabalus