Self Quotes

• “You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. ” — John Ruskin
• "What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. ” — Immanuel Kant
• "What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. ” — Thomas Sprat
• "I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship. ” — Louisa May Alcott
• "People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. ” — Oliver Goldsmith
• "Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. ” — Henry W. Longfellow
• "Change yourself and fortune will change with you. ” — Portuguese Proverb
• “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ” — Epictetus
• “Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ” — Walter Anderson
• “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.” — Robert M. Pirsig
• “True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle. ” — Hugh Blair
• "I believe that true identity is found in creative activity springing from within. It is found when one loses oneself. ” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• “Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. ” — John Stuart Mill
• "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ” — Thomas Carlyle
• "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. ” — Socrates
• "What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. ” — Saint Augustine
• "Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls. ” — Hitopadesa
• “Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ” — Robert F Kennedy
• "Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater. ” — Epictetus
• "There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ” — Hindu Proverb
• “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ” — Marie Curie
• "The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. ” — Gerard Groote
• “In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ” — Rene Descartes
• “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ” — E.B. White
• "A scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil beats the best memory. ” —  Michael Wardinski

Truthful Quotes

• In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.” – André Gide
• You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” – George Michael
• Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” – Matthew Arnold
• Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.” – Oscar Wilde
• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
• You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.” – Judith Hanson Lasater
• There are… things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” – La Rochefoucauld
• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” – Confucius
• No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.” – Thomas Mann
• Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
• Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.” – Ralph Parlette
• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” – Dr. Alexis Carrel
• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
• It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” – Robert M. Pirsig
• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” – Ben Stein
• We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.” – Mignon McLaughlin
• You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. .” – Alan Alda
• Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.” – Dorothy Bryant
• Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.” – Mac Anderson
• Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from!.” – John Eyberg
• Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.” – Carl G. Jung
• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley
• He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan
• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.” – Michel de Montaigne

Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes

“I’m just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“I hate how many people think “glass half-empty” when their glass is really four-fifths full. I’m grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money!” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“It’s easy to dream about it … Much harder to execute it ….Work!” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“You didn’t grow up driving…you figured it out.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“We only get to play this game one time…one life.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you’re dead.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Stop whining, start hustling.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Effort is grossly underrated.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

“Whether you’re 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you’re bad at, and focus on the things you’re good at.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

Mark Twain Quotes

"Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish." - Mark Twain

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain

"You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the one you did do." - Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

"Truth s the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it." - Mark Twain

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them." - Mark Twain

"Its no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain

"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one." - Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." - Mark Twain

"When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at anytime." - Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the wold owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." - Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." - Mark Twain

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain

"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

"You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain

Albert Einstein Quotes

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” -Albert Einstein

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." ― Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." ― Albert Einstein

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” ― Albert Einstein

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ― Albert Einstein

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ― Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."― Albert Einstein

“If you can‘t explain it simply, you don‘t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” -Albert Einstein

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value" ― Albert Einstein

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ― Albert Einstein

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

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” ― Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." ― Albert Einstein

"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen." ― Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." ― Albert Einstein

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein

Steve Jobs Quotes

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each others kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.” - Steve Jobs

“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.” - Steve Jobs

“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” - Steve Jobs

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” - Steve Jobs

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” - Steve Jobs

“This is not a one-man show. What’s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there’s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they’re not losers. What they didn’t have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.” - Steve Jobs

“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.” - Steve Jobs

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust insomething — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” - Steve Jobs

“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” - Steve Jobs

“It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.” - Steve Jobs

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.” - Steve Jobs

"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” - Steve Jobs

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” - Steve Jobs

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” - Steve Jobs

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” - Steve Jobs

“I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.” - Steve Jobs

John Wooden Quotes

• “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” - John Wooden
• “Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.” - John Wooden
• “When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.” - John Wooden
• "I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent." - John Wooden
• “While you can’t control what happens to you, you can control how you react.” - John Wooden
• “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” - John Wooden
• "It isn’t what you do, but how you do it. " - John Wooden
• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” - John Wooden
• “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” - John Wooden
• "Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.” - John Wooden
• "Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. " - John Wooden
• “What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.” - John Wooden
• “You can make mistakes, but you’re not a failure until you start blaming others for those mistakes.” - John Wooden
• “Happiness begins where selfishness ends.” - John Wooden
• “If you spend too much time learning the tricks of the trade, you may not learn the trade.” - John Wooden
• "A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment." - John Wooden
• "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
• "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. " - John Wooden
• “Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” - John Wooden
• "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. " - John Wooden
• “Mix idealism with realism and add hard work.” - John Wooden