I recently found myself reflecting on a few of these quotes and thought it would be nice to share some of my favorites in one place. 

Enjoy…

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“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life flows.” – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The great source of both the misery and the disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another… some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to the others but none can deserve to be pursued with the passionate ardor which drives the rules of either prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from remembrance of our own folly or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.” – Adam Smith

“It is harder to be kind than clever.” – Jeff Bezos’ Grandfather 

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Perhaps that wasn’t true. Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.” – Ernest Hemingway

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” – John Maynard Keynes

“The greater the artist the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”  – Robert Hughes 

“The man who said, ‘I’d rather be lucky than good.’ saw deeply into life.” – Woody Allen

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.” – Winston Churchill

“We do not rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” – Archilochos

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman

“Observing the numerous misfortunes that attend all conditions, forbids us to grow insolent upon our present enjoyments…. For the uncertain future has yet to come, and with every possible variety of fortune.” – Solon

“Many shall be restored that are now fallen, and many shall fall that are now in honor.” – Horace

“A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it, is committing another mistake.” – Confucius 

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” – Aristotle

“They saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes.” – Robert Prising

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” – Machiavelli

“He who wishes to be rich in a day, will be hanged in a year.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” – Mark Twain 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett 

“It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.” – William of Occam

“Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.” – Konstantin Stanislavski

“But the essential difficulty in creating strategy is not logical; it is choice itself. Strategy does not eliminate scarcity and its consequence—the necessity of choice. Strategy is scarcity’s child and to have a strategy, rather than vague aspirations, is to choose one path and eschew others. There is difficult psychological, political, and organizational work in saying “no” to whole worlds of hopes, dreams, and aspirations.” – Richard Rumelt

“On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice. It’s actually very easy to give people good advice. It’s very hard to follow the advice that you know is good… If someone came to me with my list of problems, I would be able to sort that person out very easily.” – Sam Harris

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.” – Shakespeare

“What saves a man is to take a step, then another step.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts, that which will be on the day you laugh, is also here and now.” – Sri Ramana Maharshi