my favorites from a Quote book
Life begins where fear ends.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Plan for the future because that's where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
The Bible: It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. You are the traveler and you are the destination. In experiencing the ecstasy of your own being, you have achieved the final goal.
The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The best way out is always through.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know ones self.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Classic: a book which people praise and don't read.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
Every great business is built on friendship.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit.
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
Business opportunities are like buses: there's always another one coming.
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it.
Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful?
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Try not to become just a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is not what it is built for.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubts.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
I never met a man that I didn't like.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Life doesn t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
When death is certain, it is best to sacrifice oneself for a good cause.
If superstition enters, the brain is gone.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Stay hungry, Stay foolish
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
A hand fought best when it made a fist.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.