Andrew G. > Andrew G.'s Quotes

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”
― Albert Einstein

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, “Become who you are by learning who you are.” What he meant is the following: You are born with a particular makeup and tendencies that mark you as a piece of fate. It is who you are to the core. Some people never become who they are; they stop trusting in themselves; they conform to the tastes of others, and they end up wearing a mask that hides their true nature. If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become—an individual, a Master.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
― Steve Jobs

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
― Sun Tzu

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
― Sun Tzu

“I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.”
― Lucille Ball

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ”
― Tony Robbins

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Appear as you may wish to be”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli : A Selection

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means that there is no possibility of a creator, because there is no time for a creator to have existed in.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
― Stephen Hawking

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain