English Quotes

The work of mindfulness is first to recognize the suffering and second to embrace it. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 1, 2023

This difficulty in identifying and expressing feelings is common [...] among lawyers, engineers, police officers, corporate managers, and career military personnel--people whose professional codes discourage them from manifesting emotions. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2023

In politics, being deceived is no excuse. #LeszekKolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2023

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. #HenryClay — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2023

You must love someone without expecting anything in return; otherwise it's not truly love. You must respect someone without expecting anything in return; otherwise you don't truly respect him. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2023

If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn't kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2023

Every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you. #MartinBuber — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2023

The more we interpret noncompliance as rejection, the more likely our requests will be heard as demands, This leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy, for the more people hear demands, the less they enjoy being around us. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2023

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2023

Either I will find a way, or I will make one. #PhilipSidney — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2023

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2023

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2023

Interested in an English Quotes Meetup Group? 😊 We're setting up an online international group hosting self-growth events, such as book sharing, life talk, philosophy discussion on a range of topics, building meaningful connections. Message me for an invite ❤ All are welcome! — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2023

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. #AbrahamLincoln — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2023

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas. #AlGore — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2023

The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2023

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2023

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2023

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2023

At the end of the day, a resilient organization isn't one that never makes mistakes but rather one whose mistakes make it stronger over time. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2023

The most important thing is that you develop your own principles and ideally write them down, especially if you are working with others. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2023

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2023

You could start by trying to solve a small problem--something that is bothering you, that you think you could fix. You could start by confronting a dragon of just the size that you are likely to defeat. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2023

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2023

As you become tired, your attention will indeed blink out [...] People think you're either awake or asleep [...] but he found that even if your eyes are open and you are looking around you, you can lapse--without knowing it--into a state called local sleep. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2023

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2023

We cling to objects and to people like a drowning person clings to a floating log. Practicing to realize nondiscrimination, to see the interconnectedness and impermanence of all things, and to share this wisdom with others, we are giving the gift of nonfear. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2023

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. #JohnRandolph — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2023

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. #HenryClay — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2023

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2023

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to his parents. #AbrahamLincoln — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2023

Because pain is the universal constant of life, the opportunities to grow from that pain are constant in life. All that is required is that we don't numb it, that we don't look away. All that is required is that we engage it and find the value and meaning in it. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2023

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2023

The algorithm they actually use varies all the time, but it has one key driving principle that is consistent. It shows you things that will keep you looking at your screen. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2023

Worker who through the whole of his life... pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquility... It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2023

It's a place where people would shit in bags, staple it to a wall, and call it an art project. #NeilSwaab — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2023

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2023

I was the leader of this team. They had faith in me. I had to let go of the worry. Let go of the fear. I could curl up and cry at home. Not here. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2023

It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2023

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. #RichardBach — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2023

What we need to become happier and to make the world a better place is not more pious illusions but a clearer understanding of the way things are. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2023

When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. #MaryOliver — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2023

The most rewarding part of growing my team has been watching our collective capabilities extend far beyond what any one of us could have achieved. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2023

To grow old is to fade, to become transparent. #AnnieErnaux — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2023

You can't offer happiness until you have it for yourself. So build a home inside by accepting yourself and learning to love and heal yourself. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2023

When you are approaching death, I thought, you won't think about your reinforcements--the likes and retweets--you'll think about your moments of flow. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2023

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism. #HenryClay — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2023

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2023

Adults are saying: Here's the environment. I've already mapped it. Stop exploring. but that's the opposite of what childhood is. #BarbaraSarnecka — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2023

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society. #JidduKrishnamurti — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2023

Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things [...] Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2023

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. #DrFerdinandPorsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2023

When a problem occurs, conduct the discussion at two levels: 1) the machine level (why that outcome was produced) and 2) the case-at-hand level (what to do about it). #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2023

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. #WilliamEwartGladstone — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2023

Sometimes, people can be like this... If you can recognise they have some impossible-to-live-with traits, then admire them in the wild and not in your home. Find a domestic cat that suits your home if you want happiness. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2023

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2023

Tristan taught me that the phones we have, and the programs that run on them, were deliberately designed by the smartest people in the world to maximally grab and maximally hold our attention. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2023

If you are a cat lover, then you can admire and even be in awe of a tiger. However, despite its beauty, it is a dangerous animal and you will never be able to bring it into your home and share your house with it. It belongs in the wild. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2023

Labour, like commodities, may be said to have a real and a nominal price. Its real price may be said to consist in the quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which are given for it; its nominal price, in the quantity of money. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2023

Most religions are different ways of saying the same thing. But we hear things differently because we all speak different languages. That is why we have misunderstanding and that is why we have wars. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2023

The problem isn't that we don't know how not to get punched in the face. The problem is that, at some point, likely a long time ago, we got punched in face, and instead of punching back, we decided we deserved it. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2023

We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things. #HerbKelleher — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2023

One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain. #BobMarley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2023

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. #HenryClay — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2023

Most people worry about whether their assets are going up or down; they rarely pay much attention to the value of their currency. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2023

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2023

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. #JoshuaMarine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2023

The best experiences in life that I had, when I thought back on it, came from times when I had been in the mountains climbing... climbing and doing something really kind of difficult and dangerous--but within the scope of what I could do. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2023

A lot of this work is unglamorous. But because it's important, it must be done, and if nobody else does it, then it falls to you. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2023

Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni. He writes that in order to have mutual trust, you need to be vulnerable. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2023

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. #CrissJami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2023

The more strikingly visual your presentation is, the more people will remember it. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2023

Hey 👋 If we host virtual meetups, what would interest you the most? — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2023

Our level of happiness may change transiently in response to life events, but then almost always returns to its baseline level as we habituate to those events and their consequences over time. #CelesteHeadlee — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2023

If we were the source of our own values and masters of our own houses, then we could act or fail to act as we choose and not suffer the pangs of regret, sorrow, and shame. But I have never met anyone who could manage that. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2023