“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
Category: Quotations
Unearned Guilt is Irrational (Ayn Rand)
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. — Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged
Government Does Not Innovate (Milton Friedman)
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. (economist Milton Friedman)
Getting Started (Mark Twain)
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. –Mark Twain
“Only Let Us Hurry and Open the Roads” (Wilbur Wright)
Scarcely ten years ago, all hope of flying had almost been abandoned; even the most convinced had become doubtful, and I confess that, in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for fifty years. Two … Continue reading
Happiness is the Reward of Virtue (Ayn Rand)
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the … Continue reading
Sovereign (Buddha)
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. — Buddha
Greatness of Character (James Fenimore Cooper)
“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.” — James Fenimore Cooper
James Madison on the 2016 Election
Sick of the 2016 election for U.S. President already? Check out the words and ideas of America’s founders — in this case, James Madison. Nobody today has a clue, but these men understood more than most of us now realize. … Continue reading
Certainty: Life’s Greatest Joy (Pasteur)
…After all these efforts one finally achieves certainty, one feels one of the deepest joys it is given to the human soul to experience. — Louis Pasteur, scientist and researcher
Thomas Paine’s America: As It Might and Ought to Be
Each of the following quotes are from American revolutionary Thomas Paine, writing in “The American Crisis” and “Rights of Man.” Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights … Continue reading
Love Your Life (Arthur Rubinstein)
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. — Arthur Rubinstein