Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

Progress and change →

Published Apr 29, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 29  ·  ,

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Elsewhere, this is 4a39. — slipbox

I shall succeed →

Published Apr 23, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 23  ·  

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

~ James A. Garfield

Elsewhere, this is 4a141. — slipbox

Commitment means →

Published Apr 18, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 18  ·  

Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.

~ unknown

Elsewhere, this is 4a67. — slipbox

Harmonious proportions →

Published Apr 11, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 11  ·  

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.

~ Douglas Jerrold

Elsewhere, this is 4a156. — slipbox

Play a poor hand well →

Published Apr 5, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 5  ·  

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards,
but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

~ Jack London

Elsewhere, this is 4a62. — slipbox

Protest Against Idleness →

Published Mar 30, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 30  ·  

It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; that which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.

~ James Terry White

Elsewhere, this is 4a158. — slipbox

Fitness →

Published Mar 24, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 24  ·  ,

Fitness is not about being better than someone else,
it’s about being better than you used to be.

~ unknown

Elsewhere, this is 4a281. — slipbox

Virtus →

Published Mar 18, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 18  ·  

Without an adversary, virtus shrivels. We see how great and how viable virtus is when, by endurance, it shows what it is capable of.

~ Seneca

Elsewhere, this is 4a13. — slipbox

Specialization is for insects →

Published Mar 12, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 12  ·  

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

~ Robert Heinlein

Elsewhere, this is 4a25. — slipbox

Stand erect →

Published Mar 6, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 6  ·  

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Elsewhere, this is 4a157. — slipbox