Quotes

A catalog of enjoyable quotes (in no particular order), if you have any interesting ones to add, shoot them my way!

Eventually I will likely segment these by category but for now they will just be presented as a list.

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
— George Washington

“To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.”
— Anatole France

“Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.”
― Julian Huxley

“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Most of us would be seized with fear if our bodies went numb, and would do everything possible to avoid it, yet we take no interest at all in the numbing of our souls.”
― Epictetus

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”
― Epictetus

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
― Heraclitus

“If we miss contentment, then that is often our own fault—and the fault not of our bodies but of our souls.”
― Plutarch

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,”
― Blaise Pascal

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

“Make sure your own worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears ”
― Laird Hamilton

“The man who can drive himself further when the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
Roger Bannister

“Make friends with pain, and you’ll never be alone,”
Ken Chlouber

Eternity is in love with the productions of time
― William Blake

“Faith is the highest form of knowledge.”
― Unattributed

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let ever new year find you a better man.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“When we give up on our dreams, we die while still alive.”

― Robin Sharma

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

― T.S. Eliot

“No destination
Is reached by clouds in the sky
Only endless change”

― T.M. Hoy

Happiness is only real when shared”

Chris McCandless