Quotation Collection

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner

• education

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. Seneca

• charity
• generosity

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. Emily Post

• manners

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Arthur Schopenhauer

• people skills
• manners

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. Confucius

• character
• manners

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• manners

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. George Pataki

• welfare
• responsibility

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. George Burns

• responsibility

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. Stephen Comiskey

• leadership
• responsibility

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. Martin Luther

• speech

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. Joan Didion

• responsibility
• self respect
• character

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. Jonas Salk

• responsibility
• children
• parents

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

• work
• talent

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren

• responsibility
• children

We can’t get good at something solely by reading about it. And we’ll never make giant leaps in any endeavor by treating it like a snack food that we munch on whenever we’re getting bored. You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. And by listening to specific criticism from people who are already good at what you do. And by a dedication to getting better, even when it’s inconvenient and may not involve a handy bulleted list. Merlin Mann

• practice
• self improvement

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. Luther Burbank

• thought

He who dares not offend cannot be honest. Thomas Paine

• candor
• honesty

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness, and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority. Marcus Aurelius

• character
• complaint
• thrift

This is the source.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. Marcus Aurelius

• self control
• anger

This is the source.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

• stress
• pain

This is the source.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content. Marcus Aurelius

• contentment
• self esteem

This is the source.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not. Marcus Aurelius

• self improvement

This is the source.

Authentic people actualize their own unprecedented uniqueness and appreciate the uniqueness of others. Muriel James

• uniqueness

Authentic persons - winners - do not dedicate their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence, and manipulating others. Muriel James

• self esteem

Two vital marketplace signals are the profits that come with success and the losses that come with failure. When these two signals are not allowed to freely function, markets operate less efficiently. Walter E. Williams

• economics

The mature human being goes about doing what needs to be done regardless of whether that person feels great or terrible. Knowing that you are the kind of person with that kind of self-control brings all the satisfaction and confidence you will ever need. Even on days when the satisfaction and confidence just aren't there, you can get the job done anyway. David Reynolds

• discipline

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. Stephen Covey

• motivation

At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes - an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand the world, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism: The collective enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the field on track. Carl Sagan

• science
• reason

One of the dangers of habitual accumulation is using the time available for enjoyment in furious acquisition of more and more. We substitute the joy of ownership for the desire of accumulation. Luxuries become necessities. The tyranny of things overwhelms the acquisitive heart. Fred Smith

• thrift
• simplicity

We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish. John Culkin

• imagination
• discovery

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty. Samuel Butler

• mind

Anger helps straighten out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers. Susan Marcotte

• anger

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. Ron Paul

• freedom
• violence
• liberty

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. Lyman Beecher

• religion
• politics
• science

If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time. Steve Pavlina

• goals
• work

The day that this country [America] ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. Justice Robert Jackson

• freedom
• liberty

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. Benjamin Franklin

• freedom
• rights

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. Amelia Earhart

• responsibility
• legacy

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

• reason
• science

No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. Samuel Adams

• liberty
• freedom

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. Warren Buffett

• investing

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served by others as little as possible and to serve others as much as possible. Leo Tolstoy

• service

Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can; enrich and inspire all you can. William Arthur Ward

• friends
• education
• service

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. Sally Koch

• service

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. W. J. Cameron

• Christmas

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound

• education

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. Friedrich Nietzsche

• education
• subconscious