Some of My Favorite Quotes
Often, we think ideas and have feelings but lack the words to express them. I believe that, as humans, we experience the world similarly. Sometimes, someone else finds the right words to express what you are feeling. This is why I enjoy reading and collecting quotes.
“We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.”
- Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
“Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
- Stephen McCranie
“Give a man a mask and he will show you his true self.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“We’re all ignorant, just about different things.”
- Mark Twain
Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they’re inconvenient.
“We all die. The goal is not to live forever, it’s to make something that does.”
- Monty Oum
“However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world, or even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.”
- Isaac Asimov
“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has”.
- Margaret Meade.