English Quotes

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same [...] has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2022

The greatest gift you can give someone is the power to be successful. Giving people the opportunity to struggle rather than giving them the things they are struggling for will make them stronger. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2022

One can accept life, and accept it, at the same time, as a defeat only if one accepts that there is a sense beyond that which is inherent in human history--if, in other words, one accepts the order of the sacred. #LeszekKolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2022

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. #RobinSSharma — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2022

The path to success is never a straight line. It's not about having the single, brilliant, lightning-flash insight that suddenly wins the game. Instead, it's about consistent planning and execution #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2022

Speed and efficiency are, by their nature, antithetical to introspection and intimacy. #CelesteHeadlee — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2022

If you have an egg and you open it from the outside, only death comes out. But if the egg opens up from the inside, life comes out. #RickyMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2022

You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it. #RobertAnthony — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2022

The healthy, dynamic, and above all else truthful personality will admit to error. It will voluntarily shed--let die--outdated perceptions, thoughts, and habits, as impediments to its further success and growth. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2022

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. #PaulJMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2022

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. #LeoTolstoi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2022

Come out of your shell -- that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go and some humans are just the same. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2022

Anger is the prelude to courage. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2022

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2022

The financial strength to outspend one's rivals is one of the most important strengths a country can have. That is how the United States beat the Soviet Union in the Cold War. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2022

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. #JeanRostand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2022

Live every day as if I have deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day... #AboutTime — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2022

...for those daily events that everyone is prone to regard as trivial--even the plates on which you eat your lunch. Life is what repeats, and it is worth getting what repeats right. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2022

We wanted flying cars, instead we got Twitter. #PeterThiel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2022

The pursuit of happiness plunges us head-first toward nihilism and frivolity. It leads us toward childishness, an incessant and intolerant desire for something more, a hole that can never be filled, a thirst that can never be quenched. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2022

How good it feels to have exercised, how great it will feel to look good in a bathing suit this summer, how much you respect yourself when you've followed through on your goals, how happy you are when you live by your values, when you act as an example to the ones you love. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2022

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who I am. I know the value of my work. #RobinSSharma — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2022

We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2022

Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2022

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. #JosefStalin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2022

Once you reach a sustainable level of income, more money won't make you happier, but free time will. #CelesteHeadlee — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2022

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect to eat our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2022

The Universe is full of dots. Connect the right ones and you can draw anything. The important question is not whether the dots you picked are really there, but why you chose to ignore all the others. #SamThomsen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2022

The Pursuit of Excellence: Will I be better tomorrow than I am today? Will I be more thoughtful, more intentional, more purposeful in the future than I am right now? Do my habits, routines, rituals, and actions match my intention to be better tomorrow than I am today? #RyanHawk — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2022

The only comparison I should be making is with myself. #RyanHawk — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2022

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. #EliudKipchoge — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2022

Unhappy is he who depends on success to be happy. #AlexDiasRibeiro — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2022

Just realising your talents without the context of the meaning behind it is a recipe for a lot of talented people to live a very unfulfilled life. #ScottBarryKaufman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2022

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake. #BertrandRussell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2022

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work alone is noble [...] for this is the noblest thing yet discovered under God's sky. #ThomasCarlyle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2022

We live with such ideas about human nature that are so pervasive that we don't even realize there's another way to look at ourselves. #BarrySchwartz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2022

The period of transition from the domestic to the factory system of industry and from the older to the new farming conditions was one of almost unrelieved misery for those who could not integrate into the new economy, whether due to lack of capital or lack of physical or mental adaptability. #RickBookstaber — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2022

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. #IssacBashevisSinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2022

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. #RobinWilliams — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2022

Imagine that in order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2022

When life give you lemons... you probably just found lemons. #BoBurnham — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2022

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2022

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2022

I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert. #FeliciaDay — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 10, 2022

Fandom, in general, is a low-level kind of religion. Fans of Will Smith or Katy Perry or Elon Musk follow everything that person does, hang on every word he or she says, and come to see him or her as blessed or righteous in some way. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2022

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. #RobinSSharma — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2022

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. #DennisWaitley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2022

Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2022

A certain amount of creativity and rebellion must be tolerated--or welcomed, depending on your point of view--to maintain the process of regeneration. Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2022

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. #IssacBashevisSinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2022

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. #SteveWozniak — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2022

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. #JeanRostand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2022

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2022

"When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored." Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2022

"The purpose of life is the life of purpose." Robin S. Sharma — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2022

"I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed--but that won't be true unless you give up." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2022

"Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2022

"There is an emotional gravity to our values: we attract those into our orbit who value the same things we do, and instinctively repel, as if by reverse magnetism, those whose values are contrary to our own." Mark Manson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2022

"Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge." Paulo Coelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2022

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." Issac Bashevis Singer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2022

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise." Francois de La Rochefoucauld — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2022

"You may delay, but time will not." Benjamin Franklin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2022