Category: Life Quotes

“What’s so magical about solitude? In many fields, it’s only when you’re alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.” – Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

“In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given. And the only way you’ll do something spectacular is by using it all to your advantage.” – Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is The Way

“It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau

“Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me and I’ll understand.” – Chinese Proverb

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

“What you think about when you have nothing to do reveals what is important to you.” – Bruce and Stan, God Is In The Small Stuff And It All Matters

“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the forseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.” – John Naisbitt

“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

“You can’t write a really effective play or a novel about someone who doesn’t know what he wants. So it is with the story of your life; it doesn’t get really interesting until you know what you want.” – Laurence Boldt, Zen and the Art of Making a Living

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau