English Quotes

Just as we tend to underestimate the role of luck in life in general, we tend to overestimate it in games of chance. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 1, 2023

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2023

While we may not consider the way we talk to be violent, words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or ourselves. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2023

For Nietzsche, one of the dangers of the men of ressentiment is that they will achieve their ultimate form of revenge [...] so that in due course the happy start to be ashamed of their happiness and perhaps say to one another: 'It's a disgrace to be happy!' #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2023

As Duke Ellington once said, There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind. In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to good music transcends questions of genre. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2023

You don't have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2023

Is the narrative you now possess really and truly your own? Are your dreams really your own dreams? Might not they be someone else's visions that could sooner or later turn into nightmares? #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2023

The human mind wants to win whatever game is being played. This pitfall is evident in many areas of life. We focus on working long hours instead of getting meaningful work done. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2023

This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2023

Pretending to know things one doesn't know is a betrayal of science. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2023

How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2023

Perhaps we are all living inside a giant computer simulation, Matrix-style. That would contradict all our national, religious and ideological stories. But our mental experiences would still be real. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2023

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2023

Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2023

All my rage and fear welled up inside me, and expressed its self in biscuit form. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2023

We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant... while we see the symptoms everywhere, we do not see the causes. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2023

Good predictions thus begin with having good instincts about when we're dealing with a normal distribution and when with a power-law distribution. As it turns out, Bayes's Rule offers us a simple but dramatically different predictive rule of thumb for each. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2023

Suddenly, it was dawning on Americans that health care should not be an employee benefit. It should be understood as a human right. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2023

For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2023

Suffering drives progress. The source of all suffering is the desire for a change in state. This is also the source of all progress. The desire to change your state is what powers you to take action. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2023

They, too, pay emotionally, for they are likely to feel resentment and decreased self-esteem when they respond to us out of fear, guilt, or shame. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2023

The more powerful path out of distraction is to find your flow. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2023

Self-control is an illusion. It's an illusion that occurs when both brains are aligned and pursuing the same course of action. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2023

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2023

With craving, we are dissatisfied but driven. Without craving, we are satisfied but lack ambition. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2023

Life is too complicated not to be orderly. #MarthaStewart — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2023

Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2023

Cultural patterns of behavior and belief frequently impact our perceptions (what we see), cognitions (what we think), and actions (what we do). #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2023

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2023

The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2023

The deepest goal of spirituality is freedom from the illusion of the self -- and to seek such freedom, as though it were a future state to be attained through effort, is to reinforce the chains of one's apparent bondage in each moment. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2023

Never say anything about someone that you wouldn't say to them directly and don't try people without accusing them to their faces. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2023

What's the price you pay for a high standard of living? Well, that's easy. You virtually always sacrifice the present for the future. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2023

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. #MohandasGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2023

...our hope that freedom is not going to be ultimately destroyed by the joint pressure of totalitarianism and of general bureaucratisation of the world and indeed our very readiness to defend it depend crucially on our belief... #LeszekKolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2023

But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2023

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2023

Learning does not stop as long as a man lives, unless his learning power atrophies because he does not use it. #RobertMaynardHutchins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2023

We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2023

Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2023

We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2023

It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2023

The person that you want to be is the person that you really are. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2023

Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2023

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2023

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. #LuXun — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2023

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2023

Your ability to grow in your career will hit a ceiling unless you start managing people. All C-level executives lead teams. If your ambitions are to be a CEO or VP someday, you're going to need to move on to the management track. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2023

[Tom Harkin] introduced legislation that would have banned imports made by workers under the age of fourteen. Bangladeshi factories promptly fired tens of thousands of these young girls, and many of them ended up in brothels and are presumably now dead of AIDS. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2023

Now what do you do? someone likes you, you don't like them back? You just pretend to be busy... forever. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2023

No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2023

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. #FranzKafka — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2023

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2023

Love needs to be nurtured and fed to survive; and our suffering also survives because we enable and feed it. We ruminate on suffering, regret, and sorrow. We chew on them, swallow them, bring them back up, and eat them again and again. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2023

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2023

Almost imperceptibly you'll make the bar rise. This involves the same process as jogging every day to strengthen your muscles and develop a runner's physique. Add a stimulus and keep it up. And repeat. Patience is a must in this process, but I guarantee results... #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2023

When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2023

Welcome to the real world of marriage, where hairs are always on the sink and little white spots cover the mirror [...] In this world, a look can hurt and a word can crush. Intimate lovers can become enemies, and marriage a battlefield. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2023

[Nonviolent Communication] NVC heightens our awareness that what others say and do may be the stimulus, but never the cause, of our feelings. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2023

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2023

We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2023

Having nothing to hide relieves stress and builds trust. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2023

When I give up the fish, I get [...] that thing I had been searching for: a mantra, a trick, a prescription for hope [...] Not because I worked for them. But because they are as much a part of Chaos as destruction and loss. Life, the flip side of death. Growth, of rot #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2023

Barbadoes, where slaves are numerous and objects of jealousy, punishments even for slight offences are very shocking; but in North America they are treated with the greatest mildness and humanity. Slavery is more severe in proportion to the culture of society. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2023

Now matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist. This is more of a prerequisite than a necessary quality. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2023

To exist is to drink oneself without thirst. #AnnieErnaux — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2023

If you begin to deviate from the straight and narrow path--if you begin to act improperly--people will react to your errors before they become too great... All that is left for you to do is watch, listen, and respond appropriately to the cues. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2023

...passionate love cannot last long-term, and that the foundation of a strong relationship is not perpetual excitement and intensity but a deep, hard-earned emotional bond that intensifies over time. In other words, companionate love. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2023

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2023

When we bombard people with our evaluations of their character, intelligence, and the like, we may intimidate but we do not inspire growth, confidence, or self-respect. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2023

It is unlikely that your actual path through life will match the exact journey you had in mind when you set out. It makes no sense to restrict your satisfaction to one scenario when there are many paths to success. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2023

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: 'What's good in my life?' and 'What needs to be done? #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2023

Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don't use it much anymore. #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2023

One way of imagining life is that it's a competition between love and death. Death always wins, of course, but love is there to make its victory a hollow one. That's what love is for. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2023

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2023

The only true form of freedom, the only ethical form of freedom, is through self-limitation. It is not the privilege of choosing everything you want in your life, but rather, choosing what you will give up in your life. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2023

I don't subscribe to the theory that we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult. #MichelHouellebecq — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2023

Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life and what we wish to do with our lives. Speaking each other's primary love language creates the emotional climate... #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2023

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity. #CameronDiaz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2023

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2023

If you're patient and you know what you like, you'll find what you like in another person. There's going to be things you don't like about them. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2023

When we honor bad people or avoid good people, we are playing a role in degrading the world around us. It's a small role, almost negligible. But together, our combined actions are decisive. Each step we take away from loveliness is a step away from civilization. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2023

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2023

If you extol reason, then what matters is the integrity of the thoughts, not the personalities of the thinkers. And if you're committed to progress, you can't very well claim to have it all figured out. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2023

Money to some extent sometimes lets you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2023

What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2023

You need to know who you want to be. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2023

We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain -- and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2023

Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. #JohnLubbock — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2023

Throughout history, rulers have run up debts that won't come due until long after their own reigns are over, leaving it to their successors to pay the bill. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2023

Waiting for true love was a luxury that many, especially women, could not afford. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2023

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2023

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2023

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2023

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2023

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2023

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life--and a commitment to action. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2023

Buddhists present were shocked to hear I had participated in the Eucharist [...] To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting just one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2023

Never fear conflict, never be afraid to tell the truth, and never be afraid to say what I really think. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2023

Good CEOs know that they should double down on the projects that are working and put more people, resources #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2023

Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2023

The more you ritualize the beginning of a process, the more likely it becomes that you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things. By doing the same warm-up before every workout, you make it easier to get into a state of peak performance #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2023

Violence is as much a part of what is means to be poor as being hungry, sick, homeless, or jobless. In fact, as we shall see, violence is frequently the problem that poor people are most concerned about. It is one of the core reasons they are poor in the first place #GaryAHaugen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2023

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. #SherylWuDunn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2023

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2023

Silicon Valley sells itself by articulating a big, lofty goal--connecting everyone in the world, or whatever it is. But when you're actually doing the day-to-day work, it's about increasing user numbers. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2023

It's always tempting to mistake your personal decline for the decline of the human species #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2023

The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2023

There is a terrible reptilian predator, metaphorically speaking, pursuing you all the time, just like the crocodile with the ticktock of time emanating from the clock he swallowed chasing the tyrannical coward Captain Hook. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2023

To build something where there was nothing requires deep individual concentration, and in most cases that kind of concentration occurs in a place unrelated to cooperation with others, a place we might even call damonisch. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2023

It's the kind of small town where most people spend their entire lives in the culture of their childhood. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2023

People with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2023

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. #TimothyFerriss — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2023

I was never less alone than when by myself. #EdwardGibbon — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2023

In the past, people weren't looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren't boiling, committing to marriage seems premature. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2023

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2023

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2023

If motion doesn't lead to results, why do we do it? Sometimes we do it because we actually need to plan or learn more. But more often than not, we do it because motion allows us to feel like we're making progress without running the risk of failure. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2023

The pursuit of happiness is a toxic value that has long defined our culture... Living well does not mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2023