2099 Quotations Found

Experience cannot possibly have decided between two courses, so long as there has only been experience of one.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subject: Personal Improvement

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. Where there is least liberty, the passion for power is the most ardent and unscrupulous.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Insight, Life & Society, Power

The abuse of the power cannot be very much checked while the power remains.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Concepts, Power

We inaccurately assume that what is common practice represents objective truths about the world, as opposed to being deliberately created and perpetuated because it benefits certain groups.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

One group has power. They justify that power as being natural in order to keep it. That idea of naturalness becomes part of the cultural rhetoric and becomes the lens through which the powerless are viewed. The powerless struggle to change because before they can attain rights they have to change the cultural narrative.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Power, Psychology | Behavior

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Author: E.B. White | Subject: Environment | Sustainability

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way.

Author: Aristotle | Subject: Environment | Sustainability

Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the earth, he does to himself.

Author: Chief Seattle | Subject: Environment | Sustainability

We didn’t inherit the earth from our parents, we are borrowing it from our children.

Author: Native American Proverb | Subject: Environment | Sustainability

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Author: Thomas J. Watson | Subject: Personal Improvement

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.

Author: Denis Waitley | Subject: Personal Improvement

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Author: Henry Van Dyke | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Relationships

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Author: George Bernard Shaw | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life … [ Read more ]

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brains is a craftsman. A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist.

Author: Louis Nizer | Subjects: Career, Life & Society

For in the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.

Author: John Sawhill | Subjects: Environment | Sustainability, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

Of course, like most of us. I have been brought up on the popular belief that the secret of success is hard work, but I had seen so many people work hard without succeeding and so many people succeed without working hard that I had become convinced that hard work was not the real secret even though in most cases it might be one of … [ Read more ]

Author: Albert E.N. Gray | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

As long as you live, don’t ever forget that while you may succeed beyond your fondest hopes and your greatest expectations, you will never succeed beyond the purpose to which you are willing to surrender.

Author: Albert E.N. Gray | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure