Quotes

Marilyn Monroe photo
John C. Maxwell photo

“Its easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn

Friedrich Dürrenmatt photo
Reza Pahlavi photo

“I don’t rely on any sources other than my own compatriots.”

Reza Pahlavi (1960) Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran

As quoted by Deborah Solomon, New York Times: Questions for Reza Pahlavi http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=379&page=4, The New York Times, June 26, 2009.
Interviews, 2009

Marcus Aurelius photo

“You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.”

Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IV, 32

Jay Samit photo

“Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Thomas Aquinas photo

“Perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence.”

Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I–II, q. 3, art. 8 co

Mateo Alemán photo

“The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.”

Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)

Ben Aaronovitch photo

“Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”

Epigram —Dizzy Gillespie
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011)

Abraham Lincoln photo

“More rogues than honest men find shelter under habeas corpus”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1820s Gold treasure United States, 1860s

Gregory of Nazianzus photo

“It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe.”

Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389) Christian saint, bishop, and theologian

On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press: 2002), Oration 27

Evagrius Ponticus photo

“In the whole range of evil thoughts, none is richer in resources than self-esteem.”

Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk

On Discrimination, vol. 1, p. 46
The Philokalia

Rush Limbaugh photo

“All equally truthful: number 1 is not more or less important than 35.”

Rush Limbaugh (1951) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and television personality

1990s

Ron White photo

“I was more fucked-up than Courtney Love at the Pamela Anderson roast!”

Ron White (1956) American comedian

You Can't Fix Stupid

Octavia E. Butler photo

“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”

The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)