MM > MM's Quotes

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“I knew the second I met you
that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it
wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”
(Analects 6.11)”
― Confucius

“The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.”
― Confucius

“A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.”
― Confucius

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.”
― Confucius

“Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.”
― Confucius

“I followed my heart without breaking any rules.”
― Confucius

“he who will not economize will have to agonize”
― Confucius

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
― Confucius

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”
― Confucius, The Life and Wisdom of Confucius

“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it”
― Confucius

“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”
― Confuscious

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
― Confucius

“People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.”
― Confucius

“If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.”
― Confucius

“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance.

But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing.

Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort.

But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”
― Kung Fu-Tze (Confucius)

“When the wind blows,the grass bends.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.”
― Confucius

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”
― Confucius

“If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others”
― Confucius

“The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
― Confucius, Analects Of Confucius

“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
― Confucius

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
― Confucius

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
― Confucius

“Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.”
― Confucius