Gratitude, Wealth, Stagnation, Men Quotations

GRATITUDE
Earl Nightingale
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

WEALTH
E. James Rohn
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

STAGNATION
Larry Winget
… if your life sucks it is because you suck.

MEN
Rebecca West
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Perception, Business, Stagnation, Friends Quotes

PERCEPTION
Mark Fisher and Marc Allen
Life is exactly as you picture it. Everything that happens to you is a product of your thoughts. So if you want to change your life, you must start by changing your thoughts.

BUSINESS
Francis McInerney and Sean White
Turning labor from a liability into an asset: this is what the information economy is all about.

STAGNATION
A.J. Marshall
Many of us spending half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half of our time wishing.

FRIENDS
Henry Louis Mencken
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

Philosophy, Academia, Stagnation, Service

PHILOSOPHY

John Robert Fowles
An answer is always a form of death.

ACADEMIA

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

STAGNATION

Lowell Fillmore
When we hear somebody complaining that he has not enough, we may know that he has not expressed enough appreciation for what he already has.

SERVICE

Napoleon Hill
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Philosophy, Academia, Stagnation, Love

Philosophy

Anonymous
For the good man to realize that it is better to be whole than good is to enter on a straight and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license.

Academia

Leo Botstein
At most, college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Stagnation

Robert Allen
... the vast bulk of humanity isn’t nice. They aren’t even really nasty, they’re just a heap of disorganized appetites that are struggling to be satisfied. It’s not hard to see why some of our writers and philosophers have found humanity a pretty dismal prospect.

Love

Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy – and that is life.