Personal Quotes
"Not all those who wander are lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien
British writer and philologist (1892-1973)
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
American basketball player & entrepreneur
"Forgiving and forgetting means throwing precious experiences out the window."
Arthur Schopenhauer
german philosopher (1788-1860)
"People are more willing to make sacrifices when they see that everyone else is doing it, this is human nature."
Henry Ford
Founder Ford Motor Company (1863-1947)
"Nothing achieves such an effect as a good platitude."
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
"Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think."
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist, politician, satirist, music critic and pacifist
"The past is basically just as much a product of the imagination as the future."
Jessamyn West
American Writer (1902-1984)
"Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same."
Angelina Jolie
Actress, film director, film producer and screenwriter
"I never watch my films. They are too violent for me."
Charles Bronson
"The annoying thing about anger is that you harm yourself without being useful to others."
Kurt Tucholsky
Writer
"You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem."
Tim Cook
CEO Apple
"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."
Ronald Reagan
Actor and 40th President of the United States
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian lawyer, resistance fighter, revolutionary, publicist, ascetic and pacifist
"In the school of life, you can learn by failing."
Ernst Ferstl
Austrian teacher, poet and aphorist