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Favorite Quotes

​Collected over the last 20 years of study and research, these quotes have helped guide and inform personal development. 

Classics

There's something special about gleaning wisdom from those who have come before. Even if it's an imperfect messenger, the message can still echo within our own framework and system of values. These classic quotes are generally over 50 years old, if not a couple thousand! 

Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken"

Aristotle

"Man must be open in his hate and in his love, for to care more for what people think than the truth, is a cowards part."

Michelangelo
Buonarroti

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"

Harry Truman

"It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit"

Stan lee

"If you have an idea that you think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it"

Malcolm Forbes

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him"

Cicero

""To be, rather than to seem"

 Bernard M. Baruch

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"

Hillel the Elder 

""If not us, who? If not now, when?"

Thomas Edison

"I have not failed, I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work"

Sean Stephenson

"Avoid anything that doesn't empower you"

Yoda

"Do or do not, there is no try"

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Whatever is popular opinion at the time is a function of power, and not truth"

Aristotle

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

Plato

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

Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

Mark Twain

"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain an idea without accepting it"

Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

David Foster Wallace

 "How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words." 

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