Human Self-Programming

“Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future.”

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.”

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”

“The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.”

“The first rule of compounding: never interrupt it unnecessarily.”

“The investor's chief problem — and even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself.”

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

“Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.”

“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”

“The four most dangerous words in investing are: "This time it's different."”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

“Wealth is what you don't see.”

“Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep.”

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.”

“Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“Invert, always invert.”

“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“The map is not the territory.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

“Even monkeys fall from trees.”

“The reverse side also has a reverse side.”

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

“It is health that is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.”

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

“Walking is man's best medicine.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

“The greatest wealth is health.”

“A sound mind in a sound body.”

“Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.”

“It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”

“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”

“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

“Hara hachi bu — eat until you are eight parts full.”

“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“Lost time is never found again.”

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“Ichigo ichie — one time, one meeting. Treasure this moment; it will never come again.”

“You may delay, but time will not.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“Discipline equals freedom.”

“Kaizen — small improvements, every day.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.”

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

“Fortune favors the bold.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude.”

“It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

“Wabi-sabi — beauty in the imperfect, the impermanent, and the incomplete.”

“Ikigai — a reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning.”

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life.”

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time — none, zero.”

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

“I am still learning.”

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.”

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“Read what you love until you love to read.”

“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”

“Our favorite holding period is forever.”

“Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”

“All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.”

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

“Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.”

“Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.”

“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.”

“Pain + Reflection = Progress.”

“He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.”

“You can't predict. You can prepare.”

“Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.”

“It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.”

“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.”

“Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”

“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”

“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”

“The market is never wrong — opinions often are.”

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

“You make most of your money in a bear market, you just don't realize it at the time.”

“Saving money is the gap between your ego and your income.”

“Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.”

“Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.”

“Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.”

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

“Spend less than you earn — invest the surplus — avoid debt.”

“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“Focus means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.”

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

“Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.”

“If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“There is only one boss. The customer.”

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

“Screw it, let's do it.”

“Business opportunities are like buses — there's always another one coming.”

“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.”

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.”

“Make something people want.”

“Competition is for losers.”

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength.”

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Only the paranoid survive.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“Play long-term games with long-term people.”

“Escape competition through authenticity.”

“Good is the enemy of great.”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice.”

“Character is destiny.”

“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“I think, therefore I am.”

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

“Have courage to use your own understanding.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

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

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

“The first wealth is health.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“Live the questions now.”

“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

“If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

“It's better to hang out with people better than you.”

“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.”

“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”

“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.”

“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.”

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments.”

“The world is not driven by greed. It's driven by envy.”

“Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.”

“I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models.”

“The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game.”

“Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to run it.”

“In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten.”

“The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

“Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.”

“Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life.”

“Don't confuse what you wish were true with what is really true.”

“If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits.”

“Diversifying well is the most important thing you need to do in order to invest well.”

“Experience is what you got when you didn't get what you wanted.”

“Risk means more things can happen than will happen.”

“The riskiest thing in the world is the widespread belief that there's no risk.”

“Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.”

“Margin of safety is the central concept of investment.”

“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.”

“Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.”

“In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.”

“The greatest enemies of the equity investor are expenses and emotions.”

“In investing, you get what you don't pay for.”

“Stay the course.”

“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.”

“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.”

“The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.”

“Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.”

“I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.”

“Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.”

“There is a time to go long, a time to go short and a time to go fishing.”

“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.”

“Don't focus on making money; focus on protecting what you have.”

“The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something and then pay a lot less.”

“The greatest edge you can have is to be long-term oriented in a world that is short-term oriented.”

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.”

“The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, 'I can do whatever I want today.'”

“Getting money is one thing. Keeping it is another.”

“Reasonable is more realistic than rational.”

“Enough is realizing that the opposite — an insatiable appetite for more — will push you to the point of regret.”

“You're not going to get rich renting out your time.”

“Code and media are permissionless leverage.”

“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”

“Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for.”

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.”

“Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make.”

“Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.”

“A part of all you earn is yours to keep.”

“Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings.”

“The rich don't work for money.”

“It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep.”

“Most people who live in expensive neighborhoods are not millionaires.”

“Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.”

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.”

“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

“Never spend your money before you have it.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“The habit of saving is itself an education.”

“Frugality includes all the other virtues.”

“He is richest who is content with the least.”

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”

“Customer service shouldn't just be a department, it should be the entire company.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“What gets measured gets managed.”

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”

“Be stubborn on vision but flexible on details.”

“What's dangerous is not to evolve.”

“We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.”

“High expectations are the key to everything.”

“Capital isn't scarce; vision is.”

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“Move fast and break things.”

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

“Done is better than perfect.”

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”

“Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done.”

“Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”

“People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic.”

“Start with why.”

“Every great business is built on friendship.”

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

“It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“Hire character. Train skill.”

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.”

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive: to think, to enjoy, to love.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

“Confine yourself to the present.”

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a person who is alive.”

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

“True joy is a serious matter.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.”

“Curb your desire — don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.”

“Only the educated are free.”

“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”

“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom plenty is too little.”

“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”

“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”

“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.”

“Do nothing that is of no use.”

“Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.”

“Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.”

“Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks.”

“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.”

“The highest reach of human wisdom is to bring our wishes to our means, and our means to our wishes.”

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

“Custom is the great guide to human life.”

“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own reason.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“Health is not everything, but without health, everything is nothing.”

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”

“Most people take the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“What does your conscience say? — 'You shall become the person you are.'”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

“Man is condemned to be free.”

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are.”

“To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.”

“Three passions have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”

“We are all unequal in our degree of knowledge, but equal in our degree of ignorance.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

“Never mistake motion for action.”

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“I have survived many catastrophes, most of which never happened.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”