English Quotes

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 1, 2023

Happy 2023 ❤ May we achieve all our new year goals https://t.co/CKv5bp46hw — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 31, 2022

By relentless and constant experimentation in their daily work, they were able to continually increase capacity, often without adding any new equipment or hiring more people. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 31, 2022

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. #LudwigWittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 31, 2022

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward... #HarrySTruman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 30, 2022

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 29, 2022

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 29, 2022

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 29, 2022

Remember that the only purpose of money is to get you what you want, so think hard about what you value and put it above money. How much would you sell a good relationship for? There's not enough money in the world to get you to part with a valued relationship. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 28, 2022

Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others. #LaurieHelgoe — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 27, 2022

We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 27, 2022

People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 27, 2022

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. #JohnHenryNewman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 26, 2022

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. #HelenKeller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 25, 2022

Multicultural teams need low-context processes. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 25, 2022

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 25, 2022

...the adult realizes that there's more to the world than the adolescent's constant bargaining for validation, approval, and satisfaction. Becoming an adult is therefore developing the ability to do what is right for the simple reason that it is right. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 24, 2022

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. #AnneDillard — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 24, 2022

The world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back. #AnnieErnaux — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 23, 2022

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. #BenjaminFranklin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 23, 2022

Whatever your advice was to your great-great-grandchild is really the advice to yourself. If you are not living by this advice, which is the essence of your existence, you are living a lie. Don't live a lie; it will unsettle you more than anything else. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 22, 2022

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 22, 2022

The job of a manager... is to turn one person's particular talent into performance. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 22, 2022

Meditate. I practice Transcendental Meditation and believe that it has enhanced my open-mindedness, higher-level perspective, equanimity, and creativity. It helps slow things down so that I can act calmly even in the face of chaos, just like a ninja in a street fight. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 21, 2022

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens... #HarrySTruman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2022

...disappearance of the sacred, which imposed limits to the perfection that could be attained by the profane, arises one of the most dangerous illusions of our civilization--the illusion that there are no limits to the changes that human life can undergo... #LeszekKolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2022

To become invaluable in a workplace... just do the useful things no one else is doing. Arrive earlier and leave later than your compatriots (but do not deny yourself your life). Organize what you can see is dangerously disorganized. Work, when you are working... #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2022

The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way - enrich people's lives. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 19, 2022

Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people. #AnnieErnaux — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2022

It is virtually impossible to make any business decision that doesn't result in at least one IT change. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2022

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2022

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. #SamuelButler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 17, 2022

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. #BertrandRussell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 17, 2022

You do need to delegate some risks, but generally I think it's best to only delegate solvable risk. If something simply isn't likely to go well, I think it's best to hold the bag yourself. #WillLarson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 16, 2022

The [skills] model postulates that effective problem solving and performance can be explained by the leader's basic competencies and that these competencies are in turn affected by the leader's attributes, experience, and environment. #PeterGNorthouse — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2022

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2022

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2022

Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions. We can't stop our movement down this river and we can't avoid those encounters. We can only approach them in the best possible way. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 14, 2022

Though our brother is upon the rack [...] our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2022

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. #HenryLouisMencken — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2022

Economics teaches you that making a choice means giving up something. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2022

When we pursue pain, we are able to choose what pain we bring into our lives. And this choice makes the pain meaningful--and therefore, it is what makes life feel meaningful. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2022

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. #EllenDeGeneres — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 11, 2022

I learned then one of my first lessons of management--the best outcomes come from inspiring people to action, not telling them what to do. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 11, 2022

You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accompanies all of that, is much of what life has to offer. Miss it at your great peril. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 11, 2022

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. #HarrySTruman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2022

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2022

When interacting with someone from another culture, try to watch more, listen more, and speak less. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2022

People who know little are usually great talker, while men who know much say little. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2022

Watch populism and polarization as markers. The more that populism and polarization exist, the further along a nation is in Stage 5, and the closer it is to civil war and revolution. In Stage 5, moderates become the minority. In Stage 6, they cease to exist. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2022

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2022

If virtue, therefore, be desirable for its own sake, and if vice be, in the same manner, the object of aversion, it cannot be reason which originally distinguishes those different qualities, but immediate sense and feeling. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2022

The truth is, productivity is a by-product of a functional system, not a goal in and of itself. The question is not whether you are productive but what you are producing. #CelesteHeadlee — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2022

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2022

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. #DelmoreSchwartz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2022

An even worse stick is when someone has done something wrong and clearly shown remorse and change, only to be repeatedly reminded of their previous misdemeanours by another person. This very strong form of passive aggression by the stick-wielding person is abuse. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2022

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. #AntoinedeSaintExupery — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2022

Loneliness is failed solitude. #SherryTurkle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2022

Your failure to specify your desires means your unfortunate lover will have to guess what would please and displease you, and is likely to be punished in some manner for getting it wrong. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2022

If a man wants you to believe him, he is not worthy of your trust; if a man believes he has the truth, he is ready to lie; those who convince others to change their religious beliefs haven't understood the true meaning of religion. #IndianReligiousMaster — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2022

In an infinite sea of possible beliefs, evidence is the only life preserver we've got. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2022

You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience. #TonyRobbins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2022

Punishing failure and shooting the messenger only cause people to hide their mistakes, and eventually, all desire to innovate is completely extinguished. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2022

What gets in the way of good work? There are only two possibilities. The first is that people don't know how to do good work. The second is that they know how, but they aren't motivated. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2022

My organizational philosophy is to stabilize team-by-team and organization-by-organization. Ensuring any given area is well on the path to health before moving my focus. I try not to push risks onto teams that are functioning well. #WillLarson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2022

Out of disorder and discontent come leaders who have strong personalities, are anti-elitist, and claim to fight for the common man. They are called populists. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2022

Coercive leaders are Adolf Hitler in Germany, the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, Jim Jones in Guyana, and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, each of whom has used power and restraint to force followers to engage in extreme behaviors. #PeterGNorthouse — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2022

The human mind has limits. We can only remember so many things; we can really only concentrate on one thing at a time. This tendency--for the process of fixing things to get harder as more time elapses--represents a similar limitation. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2022

You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground. #Anonymous — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 28, 2022

That absolute alignment of purpose and trust is something that creates greatness. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2022

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2022

The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2022

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2022

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. #Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2022

There is no evidence that the importance of friendship declines in any manner with age. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2022

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.' #AnselAdams — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2022

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2022

Bad money drives out good money. #ThomasGresham — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2022

Trust is like insurance--it's an investment you need to make up front, before the need arises. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 23, 2022

Specialization is both the cause and the effect of prosperity, and it creates the modern economic life that allows us to move beyond subsistence. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2022

Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2022

Your great-great-grandchild asks, 'Before you die, tell me what I should do with my life?' Pause for a moment now and try to honestly answer the question immediately within the next minute. You have just one minute, start now #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2022

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent; then I shut off, which scares people sometimes. #Bjork — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2022

The only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2022

It isn't easy to discuss mistakes, confront tensions, or talk about deep fears or secret hopes, but no strong relationship can be built on superficial pleasantries alone. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2022

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2022

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2022

When people are trapped in this downward spiral for years [...] they often feel stuck in a system that pre-ordains failure and leaves them powerless to change the outcomes. This powerlessness is often followed by burnout, with the associated feelings of fatigue, cynicism #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2022

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 18, 2022

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. #LaurenceSterne — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2022

The couple can decide that each and both are subordinate to a principle, a higher-order principle, which constitutes their union in the spirit of illumination and truth. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2022

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2022

It's the system that surrounds us, rather than any intrinsic quality, that accounts for the vast majority of our behavior. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2022

You must do the things you think you cannot do. #EleanorRoosevelt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2022

Remember that most people are happiest when they are improving and doing the things that suit them naturally and help them advance. So learning about your people's weaknesses is just as valuable (for them and for you) as is learning their strengths. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2022

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. #AbrahamLincoln — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2022

...between lovers of prostitutes and lovers of clouds: those who know only the satisfactions of the moment and are therefore contemptible, and those who lose themselves in otiose imaginings, and are therefore contemptible. Everything is contemptible. #LeszekKolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 2022

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2022

Engaged with the challenges faced by individuals you're responsible to help, when their problem is low in your problems queue? [...] identify a few areas to improve [...] write this up as an explicit plan and agree on what reasonable progress looks like. #WillLarson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2022

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2022

Management is to provide order and consistency to organizations, whereas the primary function of leadership is to produce change and movement. Management is about seeking order and stability; leadership is about seeking adaptive and constructive change. #PeterGNorthouse — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2022

I think of a traditional CEO as being divorced from customers. A lot of consumer company CEOs - they're not really interacting with consumers. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2022

When you are visited by chaos and swallowed up... it is salutary to know the rest of the story. All of that misfortune is only the bitter half of the tale of existence, without taking note of the heroic element of redemption. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2022

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. #ParkinsonsLaw — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2022

Young adulthood is a period when many people struggle with values, control, and community. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2022

Find people who are just as talented and who are humble and kind. It's not an either-or [...] You can and should hold the bar high for collaboration. These people are out there. Don't compromise your values for someone who thinks it's okay to bully others. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2022

Strive for all your one-on-one meetings to feel a little awkward. Why? Because the most important and meaningful conversations have that characteristic. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 7, 2022

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 6, 2022

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. #VictorHugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 6, 2022

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone. #CharlesBukowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 6, 2022

The most valuable habit I've acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will learn what causes your pain and what you can do about it, and it will have an enormous impact on your effectiveness. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2022

As she is the senior person in the room, I wait for her to call on me. And, while I am waiting, I should show I am a good listener by keeping both my voice and my body quiet. In China, we often feel Westerners speak up so much in meetings that they do this to show off #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2022

The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2022

If a man in the morning hear the Way, he may die in the evening without regret. #Confucius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2022

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. #Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2022

Work out what you can control and what you can't. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2022