Blair > Blair's Quotes

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”
― Henry Ford

“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
― Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
― Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
― Henry Ford

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
― Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
― Henry Ford

“History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.”
― Henry Ford

“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”
― Jimmy Buffett

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
― Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
― Albert Einstein

“A careless word may kindle strife,
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A timely word may lessen stress,
A loving word may heal and bless.”
― Anonymous

“No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really wanted first; and after a successful and vigorous political life, he forgets it himself. The whole is an extravagant riot of second bests, a pandemonium of pis-aller.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.”
― Mozzie white collar

“the smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention”
― Duguet

“Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.”
― Harry S. Truman

“Action is eloquence.”
― William Shakespeare

“False eloquence is exaggeration — true eloquence is emphasis.”
― William R. Alger

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
― Orson Welles

“Those who make excuses, don't make progress.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Adversity makes strange bedfellows.”
― Anonymous

“Desperation makes for strange bedfellows”
― Mozzie Haversham

“Dead men don't bite”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“No name. No memory today of yesterday’s name; of today’s name, tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in us is the concept of every thing placed outside of us; and without a name you don’t have the concept, and the thing remains in us as if blind, indistinct and undefined: well then, let each carve this name that I bore among men, a funeral epigraph, on the brow of that image in which I appeared to him, and then leave it in peace, and let there be no more talk about it. It is fitting for the dead. For those who have concluded. I am alive and I do not conclude. Life does not conclude. And life knows nothing of names. This tree, tremulous pulse of new leaves. I am this tree. Tree, cloud; tomorrow book or wind: the book I read, the wind I drink. All outside, wandering.”
― Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

“Every villain is a hero in his own mind.”
― Tom Hiddleston