The Key to Life: In 365 Quotes

1. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato

2. A man may well bring a horse to water, but he cannot make him drink.

John Heywood

3. Actions speak louder than words; what you say has little to do with what you believe, but the chance of you acting it out is 100%.

Jordan Peterson

4. Always say less than necessary.

Robert Greene

5. All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

6. Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

7. Even while they teach, men learn.

Seneca

8. Do not regret what you have done.

Miyamoto Musashi

9. Don't show that you're smart, show that you're accomplished.

Jordan Peterson

10. Example is always better than an advice.

Proverb

11. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie

12. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Henry Thomas Buckle

13. He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu

14. He who poses as a fool is not a fool.

Robert Greene

15. I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

Hermann Hesse

16. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry Truman

17. If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

18. If you cannot decide, the answer is no.

Naval Ravikant

19. If you help someone it's your victory, because they didn't generate a solution and can't help themselves next time.

Jordan Peterson

20. If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.

Miyamoto Musashi

21. If you set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime and you will achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

22. In an argument, before you can make a point, regurgitate their point and have them agree to it.

23. It is better to seek peace than victory.

Proverb

24. Make hay while the sun shines.

John Heywood

25. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon

26. No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

27. Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

28. Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Bashō

29. That which you most need will be found where you least want to look.

Carl Jung

30. The best revenge is to not be like your enemy.

Marcus Aurelius

31. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

32. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Proverb

33. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Bernard Meltzer

34. The promised land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

35. The secret of change is to concentrate all your abilities, not to destroy the old, but to build the new.

Socrates

36. The world belongs to those who let go.

Lao Tzu

37. Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame.

Confucius

38. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they are not altered for the better designedly.

Francis Bacon

39. To go from a bad place to a better place, you go to a worse place first.

Karen M. McManus

40. To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

41. We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

42. Wisdom is the knowledge of eternal truths. Philosophy is love of knowledge.

43. When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

Maya Angelou

44. Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

45. When you go out to seek revenge, dig two graves.

Proverb

46. You can't help those who don't want to be helped.

Proverb

47. You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

Maya Angelou

48. You lose more by being indecisive than by making the wrong decision.

Marcus Tullius Cicero