Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (17 page)

"The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal."
Plato

"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
Alexander Pope

"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones."
Joseph Priestly

"Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it."
Ayn Rand

"No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity."
Ayn Rand

"You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well."
Ayn Rand

"A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."
Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Our lives teach us who we are."
Salman Rushdie

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself."
John Ruskin

"With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved."
Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."
Mark Rutherford

"Nothing is so irrevocable as mind."
George Santayan

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
Arthur Scopenhauer

"Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
Lucius Annus Seneca

"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."
Lucius Annus Seneca

"Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
William Shakespeare

"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."
Sir Philip Sidney

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
Isaac Singer

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Socrates

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Socrates

"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
Herbert Spencer

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
Laurence Sterne

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "
Igor Stravinsky

"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."
Sun Tzu

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control
,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
Henry David Thoreau

"You never know yourself till you know more than your body."
Thomas
Traherne

"Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins."
Upanishads V.

"Happy the man who knows the causes of things."
Vergil

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."
Denis Waitley

"The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge."
Thomas J. Watson

"I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there."
William Wordsworth

"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
Wilbur Wright

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
Sir Winston Churchill

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

Anonymous

"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."

John Cassavetes

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."

Euripides

"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words."
Brian Tracy

"No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill

"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Eric Hoffer

"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

James A. Garfield

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come."

C.S. Lewis

"Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick."

Dr. Frank Crane

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann von Goethe

47 Inspirational Quotes

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
Benjamin Disraeli

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves self-discipline with all of them came first."

Harry S. Truman

"If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside."

Critias of Athen

"He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory."

Jyrus

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

 
Buddha

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do."

Aristotle

"The first and the best victory is to conquer self."

Plato

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
Rob Gilbert

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

Tyron Edwards

"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character."

John S. Bonnell

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."

Napoleon Hill

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No
Niagara
is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline."

Bum Phillips

"A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter."

Proverb

"Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority."
Bertrand Russell

"He who lives without discipline dies without honor."

Icelandic Proverb

"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here."

From Disiderata

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life."
James Allen

"It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline."

Anonymous

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."

Dr. James G. Bilkey

"That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune."

Robert Blair

"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character."

John Sutherland Bodell

"Discipline is remembering what you want."

David Campbell

"Hands untrained in the use of tools destroy what they want to build. It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired, whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one. Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes. But it must be used by a trained mind, a mind capable of disciplined thinking."
J.B. Charles

"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."

Clint Eastwood

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

Tyron Edwards

"If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence."

William Feather

"If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us."

William Feather

"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D

"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."
Brutus Hamilton