2099 Quotations Found

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Author: Nido Qubein | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Author: Nido Qubein | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

One might even say that moving minds — our own as well as those of others — is among the most effortful labor there is.

Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Personal Improvement

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Author: George Washington | Subject: Relationships

Here’s the thing about inspiration: It has to be earned. Someone is inspiring not because they look at you with big eyes and ask you to find it in your heart to believe in their dream. It’s because they actually have a dream that’s worth getting excited about. And those dreams don’t come lightly. They come from blood, sweat, and tears. Inspiration is like love. … [ Read more ]

Author: Chris Anderson | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Leadership, Life & Society

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Author: Dalai Lama | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Author: Anaïs Nin | Subjects: Concepts, Love

Lo supe siempre. No hay nadie que aguante la libertad ajena; a nadie le gusta vivir con una persona libre. Si eres libre, ése es el precio que tienes que pagar: la soledad.
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I always knew. There is no one who can endure the freedom of others; nobody likes to live with a free person. If you are free, that is the price you have to … [ Read more ]

Author: Chavela Vargas | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Life & Society, Relationships

The Habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All History will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruits of experience, not the Lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the Heart, then those qualities which would otherways lay dormant, wake into … [ Read more ]

Author: Abigail Adams | Subjects: History, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The ideologue believes that what is right works, but the pragmatist believes instead that what works is right.

Author: Mark Shields | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Optimism is a prediction that everything’s going to end well. Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.

Author: Fred Krupp | Subjects: Concepts, Hope, Insight, Personal Improvement

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Author: Denis Waitley | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Author: Chimamanda Adichie | Source: TED | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Stories

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. […] The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.

Author: Chimamanda Adichie | Source: TED | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Race Relations, Relationships

When you love something, it’s a bottomless pool of energy. That’s where the energy comes from. But you have to love it sincerely. Not because you’re going to make money from it, be famous, or get whatever you want to get. When you do it because you love it, then you can find yourself moving up and getting really good at something you wanted to … [ Read more ]

Author: Jerry Seinfeld | Subjects: Career, Concepts, Life & Society, Love, Personal Improvement

The science of management has long revolved around the question “How?” at the expense of “Why?” Widening the discussion to include ends as well as means also opens the door to the most troubling moral and ethical conflicts.

Author: Benjamin Kessler | Subjects: Business, Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality

Big business has arguably become the most dominant force in many societies, subsuming the power of Church and State but not their responsibilities. As a result, the urgent human needs (for security, stability and spiritual nourishment) once met by those institutions must largely go begging.

Author: Benjamin Kessler | Subjects: Business, Life & Society, Religion

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) simply describes how our monetary system actually works. Its explanatory power doesn’t depend on ideology or political party. […] At any point in time, every economy faces a sort of speed limit, regulated by the availability of its real productive resources — the state of technology and the quantity and quality of its land, workers, factories, machines and other materials. If … [ Read more ]

Author: Stephanie Kelton | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Economics | Economy

Taxes exist for many reasons, but they exist mainly to give value to a state’s otherwise worthless tokens.

Author: Stephanie Kelton | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Politics & Public Policy, Taxation

Theories of economics are built on the foundational belief that individuals are rational, well-informed and autonomous. But in practice, none of those things are true. For example, we’re far from autonomous — each person influences other people. In my reading and research […] I came to more of a determinist worldview that free will is overrated and our willpower is overstated. We’re actually much more … [ Read more ]

Author: Kevin Fishner | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior