A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. — Winston Churchill
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be guided by beauty... it can be the way a company runs, or the way an experiment comes out, or the way a theorem comes out, but there's a sense of beauty when something is working well, almost an aesthetic to it. — Jim Simons
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. — V.S. Naipaul
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a cavern of darkness to be traversed before that temple can be entered. The gate of the cavern is despair, and its floor is paved with the gravestones of abandoned hopes. — Joseph Campbell
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back. — Albert Camus
If you get people to believe absurdities, you can get them to commit atrocities. — Voltaire
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. — Wendell Phillips
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. — Aldous Huxley
Every good quality has its bad side, and nothing that is good can come into the world without directly producing a corresponding evil. — Carl Jung
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. — Viktor E. Frankl
Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. — Viktor E. Frankl
Your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils. — Dante Alighieri
It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious. — Niccolò Machiavelli
Treat your men as you would your own beloved son and they will follow you into the deepest valley. — Sun Tzu
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. — Niccolò Machiavelli
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. — Niccolò Machiavelli
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. The first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind is useless. — Niccolò Machiavelli
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of the toil and sacrifice and high courage... for us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. — Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever I think is right for me to do, I do. I do the things that I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act. — Theodore Roosevelt
If I want a man under me to do a job, I will give him the power to do it, and I will say: 'I want you to do that piece of work.' Now if he says: 'How am I to do it?' I will say: 'I will take another man. I will take someone else to do it.' If I am trusted to do a job, I want the power given to me and then I will be held accountable for it. But give me the chance to make or mar that job myself. — Theodore Roosevelt
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. — Bruce Lee
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. — Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a great one. — Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. — Abraham Lincoln
Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. — Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
A man must have a code. — Bunk Moreland, The Wire
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams—this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness—and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be. — Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. — Winston Churchill
History never repeats itself, but the kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends. — Mark Twain
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair
To become a philosopher king, first become a king, then become a philosopher. — Epictetus
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. — Lucius Cornelius Sulla
The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed — William Gibson
Gesta non verba
Aut vincere, aut mori
Sic parvis magna