“The truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.”
– Socrates
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives. Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”
– Charlie Munger
“The salvations of man is through love and in love.”
– Viktor Frankl, [Man’s search for meaning]
“There is a time for everything; life is a lyrical arrangement of good and bad, of relational complexity and nuanced subtleties, and at the end of it all, you go in a box in the cold, hard ground.”
– David Gibson, [Living life backward]
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Meditations]
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Meditations]
“Risk takers never complain. They do.”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Give me a place to stand and I shall move the world.”
– Archimedes
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