Quotation Collection

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. Blaine Lee

• principle

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Og Mandino

• goals
• success

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good. Norman Schwarzkopf

• integrity

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts" probably lost. Martina Navratilova

• sports
• victory

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Mason Cooley

• reading

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. Kyle Farnsworth

• wisdom

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe. Marion Blakey

• legacy
• candor

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle. Warren Buffett

• investing

This is the context.

It's your responsibility if you're buying it. And there's got to be a reason. And if you can't state the reason, you shouldn't buy it. Warren Buffett

• investing

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. Warren Buffett

• investing

The disadvantage of being in any kind of a market type environment - and Wall Street would be the extreme - is that you get over stimulated. You think you have to do something every day. Warren Buffett

• investing

What you're looking for is some way to get one good idea a year, and then ride it to its full potential. And that's very hard to do in an environment where people are shouting prices back and forth every five minutes. Warren Buffett

• investing

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever. Warren Buffett

• investing

We never buy something with a price target in mind. Warren Buffett

• investing

The way to look at a business is, "Is this going to keep producing more, and more, and more money over time?" And if the answer to that is yes, you don't need to ask any more questions. Warren Buffett

• investing

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. Brian Tracy

• change
• self improvement

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. Leon Tec

• goals

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers

• laughter

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron

• laughter
• health

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare

• greatness

The truth is that no nation can be constantly prepared to undertake a full-scale war at any moment and still hope to maintain any of the other purposes in which people are interested and for which nations are founded.

In the first place, it requires a complete surrender of liberty and the turning over to the central government of power to control in detail the lives of the people and all of their activities.

While in time of war people are willing to surrender those liberties in order to protect the ultimate liberty of the entire country, they do so on the theory that it is a limited surrender and one which they hope will soon be over, perhaps within a few months, certainly within a few years. But an indefinite surrender of liberty such as would be required by an all-out war program in time of peace might mean the final and complete destruction of those liberties which it is the very purpose of the preparation to protect. Robert Taft

• liberty
• freedom
• national defense

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. Napoleon Hill

• achievement
• ideas

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill

• failure
• persistence

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso

• procrastination
• time management

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. Ron Paul

• language
• words
• politicians
• politics

Simply put, freedom is the absence of government coercion. Our Founding Fathers understood this, and created the least coercive government in the history of the world. The Constitution established a very limited, decentralized government to provide national defense and little else. States, not the federal government, were charged with protecting individuals against criminal force and fraud. For the first time, a government was created solely to protect the rights, liberties, and property of its citizens. Any government coercion beyond that necessary to secure those rights was forbidden, both through the Bill of Rights and the doctrine of strictly enumerated powers. This reflected the founders’ belief that democratic government could be as tyrannical as any King.

Few Americans understand that all government action is inherently coercive. If nothing else, government action requires taxes. If taxes were freely paid, they wouldn’t be called taxes, they’d be called donations. If we intend to use the word freedom in an honest way, we should have the simple integrity to give it real meaning: Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less. Ron Paul

• taxes
• constitution
• freedom
• America