Quotes

Here is my collection of favorite Quotes. I update them frequently, so plan to come back from time to time.

Kindness is more important than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all
Mark 10: 43-44
There is a time for putting together
And another time for taking apart.
He who understands
This course of events
Takes each new state
In its proper time
With neither sorrow nor joy …
Chuang Tze
Right is right, even if everyone is against it;
and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much;
wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,
       a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,
       a time to tear down and a time to build …
                                                                      Ecclesiastes 3
None of the best things in life can be captured.
The only way we can immortalize anything is by appreciating it when it happens.
Ernest Hemingway
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world
and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
All streams flow to the sea
because it is lower than they are.
Humility gives it its power.
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching – Chapter 66
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Partnership is like an artichoke –
You must peel away many layers to get to its meaty heart.
Anonymous
The surest test if a man be sane
Is if he accepts life whole, as it is,
Without needing by measure or touch to understand
The measureless untouchable source
Of its images …
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching – Chapter 21
Change is more effective when people are shown a truth that influences their feelings,
than if they are given analysis to shift their thinking.
John Kotter
The Heart of Change
Warfare is a great matter to a nation;
it is the ground of death and of life;
it is the way of survival and of destruction;
and hence must be carefully examined.
Sun Tzu
The Art of War – Chapter 1
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
Lin Yu Tang
The Art of Living
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yu Tang
The Art of Living
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management say is possible.
Colin Powell
The Master doesn’t talk, he acts.
When his work is done, the people say:
"Amazing, we did it all by ourselves!"
                                                                        Lao-Tzu
                                                                        Tao Te Ching – Chapter 17
I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears,
for the witching melody
of faint bugles blowing reveille
of far drums beating the long roll.
Douglas MacArthur
Westpoint, May 1962
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare
Julius Cæsar – Act IV, Scene 3
If your will is not strong,
if your thought does not oppose injustice,
you will fritter away your life stuck in the commonplace,
silently submitting to the bonds of emotion,
forever cowering before mediocrities,
never escaping the downward flow.
Zhuge Liang
The Way of the General
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henri David Thoreau
Walden