Favorite Quotes

Top 5

Doveryai no proveryai translated (Trust but verify)- Russian Maxim

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. - C.G. Jung

Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance - Albert May

Worrying is paying interest on a debt that is not yours! - Mark Twain

People often think they have a right to not be offended, but this is a misconception. You can walk away, not listen, and criticize, but you don’t have the right to censor others. -Anonymous Professor

Military

We do not rise to the level of our hopes, we fall to the level of our training! - Archa Locus

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice. - General James Mattis

I came in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me I’ll kill you all. - General James Mattis

There are no bad units, only bad officers. - Col Hackworth

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. - Plutarch

Outlook

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be - Abraham Lincoln

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is today. - Chinese Proverb

Be so good they can’t ignore you - Steve Martin

Change is the hardest thing to institute. Those who will suffer as result will oppose it fully, using all measures possible. Those who will benefit, will provide only lukewarm support. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. - Jim Rohn

Give a man a mask and he will show you his true face - Oscar Wilde

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that lives in every man - Polybius

Delight

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

One cannot wander the world, and its bookcases, without seeing strange and morbid things. I simply wrote some of them down. - Lemony Snicket

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

Experience is a brutal teacher but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place - George Bernard Shaw

Most of the world’s ills are caused by liquor and leverage - Charles Munger

Mortality

Death should be like taking off a tight fitting well worn shoe - Alan Watts

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.>- The Viking Death

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things. - Lemony Snicket

Good vs Evil

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Solzhenitsyn

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. - Aldous Huxley

I’ve seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance, that is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul - Mahatma Gandhi

There is no lasting hope in violence only temporary relief from hopelessness - Kingman Brewer Jr

Men are more ready to repair an injury than a benefit because gratitude is a burden and revenge is a pleasure - Tacitus