2098 Quotations Found

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Author: Will Rogers | Subjects: Material Possessions, Psychology | Behavior

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one’s own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody’s else advice.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham | Subjects: Experience, Learning, Personal Improvement

Money is like a sixth sense without which one cannot enjoy the other five.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham | Subject: Material Possessions

“Thou shalt not” might reach the head, but it takes “Once upon a time” to reach the heart.

Author: Philip Pullman | Subjects: Communication, Inspiration

We’re very good at saying we want to create a gender-sensitive, multiethnic centralized government based on human rights, policy, and law. But we’re very bad at deciding at what cost and in what time frame. Are we prepared to empower a provincial warlord to keep security for five years while we get our act together? Are we prepared to allow drug cultivation to continue because … [ Read more ]

Author: Rory Stewart | Subject: Foreign Policy

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Author: Jacques Barzun | Subject: America

It is both astonishing and depressing that so much of the energy of mankind has gone into fighting for…the truth of creeds, religious, moral and political, as distinct from what has gone into effort to try creeds by putting them to the test of acting upon them.

Author: John Dewey | Subjects: Culture, Psychology | Behavior

Fear, laziness and anger. These are the downfall of human beings.

Author: Unknown | Source: Sanskrit Saying | Subjects: Fear, Wisdom

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Author: James Baldwin | Subject: Material Possessions

Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.

Author: Lord Halifax | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Perspective, Wisdom

The cult of the amateur is digital utopianism’s most seductive delusion. This cult promises that the latest media technology—in the form of blogs, wikis and podcasts— will enable everyone to become widely-read writers, journalists, movie directors and music artists. It suggests, mistakenly, that everyone has something interesting to say.

Author: Andrew Keen | Subjects: Communication, IT | Technology, Life & Society, Miscellaneous

I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world – the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.

I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.

But humanity’s greatest advances are not in its … [ Read more ]

Author: Bill Gates | Subjects: Life & Society, Miscellaneous

The United States is a nation built upon ideas and values rather than ethnicity or faith, forever negotiating the tension between its egalitarian and its individualistic commitments.

Author: Seymour Martin Lipset | Subject: America

There is no better way to occupy the high ground in a debate than to define its language.

Author: Witold Rybczynski | Subject: Communication

Your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God you cannot say “but I was told by others to do thus” or that “virtue was not convenient at the time.” This will not suffice.

Author: King Baldwin IV | Subjects: Life & Society, Religion

Gratitude for blessings is the most exalted of all virtues. The measure of one’s existence is enhanced in proportion to the strength of his spirit of gratitude.

Author: Konosuke Matsushita | Subjects: Gratitude, Wisdom

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Author: Ambrose Redmond | Subject: Fear

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice is also great
And would suffice.

Author: Robert Frost | Subject: Poetry

I said a prayer for you today and I know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart although He spoke no word.
I didn’t ask for wealth or fame (I knew you wouldn’t mind)
I asked Him to send treasures of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that He’d be near you at the start of each new day
To grant you health … [ Read more ]

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Poetry, Religion

A great proportion of the misery that wanders, in hideous forms, around the world, is allowed to rise from the negligence of parents.

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft | Subjects: Culture, Family & Friends