Epictetus Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is most difficult of all things.

No man is free unless he is the master of himself.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The divine order does not design people or circumstance according to our tastes.

If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life.

Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.

Working within our sphere of control, we are naturally free, independent, and strong. Beyond that sphere, we are weak, limited, and dependent.

Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before we began to exist.

Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.

Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don’t blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations.

Be free from grief; not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

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The Greatest Salesman in the World Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.

Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.

Failure will never overtake we if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.

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Rework (Jason Fried) Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

You don’t need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.

When you treat people like children, you get children’s work.

If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.

There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not f*ck or sh*t. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast.

If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

People will respect you more if you are open, honest, public, and responsive during a crisis.

We all have ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.

Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.

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ReWork (Jason Fried) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Accounting is a department. Marketing isn’t.

Start a business, not a startup.

Working more doesn’t mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.

Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior.

Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The real question is how well you execute.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.

You’re better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

Get the chisel out and start making something real. Anything else is just a distraction.

Policies are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual.

For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough.

Estimates that stretch weeks, months, and years into the future are fantasies.

Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to the competition.

The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they’ll never happen.

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The Lessons of History (Ariel Durant & Will Durant) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Social evolution is an interplay of custom with origination.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias.

The only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

There is no humorist like history.

The historian will not mourn because he can see no meaning in human existence except that which man puts into it.

War is a nation’s way of eating.

Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character.

It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that “you can’t fool all the people all the time”, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality.

To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions.

Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization.

Man, not earth, makes civilization.

Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically.

Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.

War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

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Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt) Quotes Collection

Economics is, at root, the study of incentives.

If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.

The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would run out of adults before you ran out of guns.

Risks that you control are much less a source of outrage than risks that are out of your control.

Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.

If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.

If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.

An expert must be bold, if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties.

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Sri Aurobindo Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Life is life, whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

The atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

The practice of yoga brings us face-to-face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Live according to nature, runs the maxim of the west; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This, first we ought to determine.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it, till it is shattered by fresh genius.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Hinduism, gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit.

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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Do not read history. Read biography, for it is life without theory.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Silence is the mother of truth.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.

He who gains time gains everything.

Justice is truth in action.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Success is the child of audacity.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure, it is in decay.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Self-knowledge has no end; you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

An idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

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Sri Chinmoy Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Fear is a real enemy. What does it do? It buys our coffin long before we are destined to die.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.

World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness; happiness will run after you.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

Truth is in all, but love is all.

Daring enthusiasm and abiding cheerfulness can accomplish everything on earth without fail.

Death is not the end, death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveler. The soul is the guide

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life; in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

Wait for tomorrow to think tomorrow's thoughts.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

To follow the crowd is to miss the destination.

Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, but finally illumine him.

Never worry about things that you are unable to change. Change your own way of looking at truth.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love.

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Tools of Titans Quotes (Tim-Ferriss) Collection | Quotsagram

When 99% of people doubt you, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

If you ran into an as*hole in the morning, you ran into an as*hole. If you run into as*holes all day, you're the as*hole.

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you’ll ever make in your life.

My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.

When you complain, nobody wants to help you.

The superheroes you have in your mind are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized one or two strengths.

Good stories always beat good spreadsheets.

Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend, the more you have.

I always advise young people to become good public speakers. Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you’re the boss of the people who have only one skill.

It’s always the hard part that creates value.

If you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you’re going to make a lot of mistakes.

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

You’re not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You’re responsible for maxing out what you were given.

Think of problems as gold mines. The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.

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The 5 Second Rule (Mel Robbins) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind.

You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.

It’s not the big moves that change everything, it’s the smallest ones in your everyday life that do.

The problem was very clear. It was me. I was holding myself back, five seconds at a time.

You can’t control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.

If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed.

Your feelings don’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you do.

To play any game, you have to start. To win, you need to keep going.

You are one decision away from a completely different life.

I was the problem and in five seconds, I could push myself and become the solution.

You are not going to win, if you keep telling yourself to wait.

Pushing yourself to take simple actions creates a chain reaction in your confidence and your productivity.

The more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed.

Hesitation is the kiss of death. You might hesitate for a just nanosecond, but that’s all it takes. That one small hesitation triggers a mental system that’s designed to stop you. And it happens in less than, you guessed it, five seconds.

There’s one thing that is guaranteed to increase your feelings of control over your life, a bias toward action.

If you have one of those impulses that are pulling you, if you don’t marry it with an action, within 5 seconds, you pull the emergency break and kill the idea.

There is only one you. And there will never be another one. That's your power.

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