Sander Klinkenberg > Sander's Quotes

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
― Descartes

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
― Elon Musk

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“Never regret anything that made you smile”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“What’s the point of getting up in the morning unless you’re gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure”
― Hans Zimmer

“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”
― Denzel Washington

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened”
― David Attenborough

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
― James Baldwin

“Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

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

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
― Rene Descartes

“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”
― Ben Hogan

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
― James Baldwin

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

“You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn