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