Anyone, anywhere, can make a positive difference. Mark Sanborn
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell
Do what is right, not what is easy. Unknown
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair
Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors. Jocko Willink
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. Sheryl Sandberg
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe
in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. Seth
Godin
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock,
letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not
realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Nelson
Mandela
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Peter F. Drucker
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George Patton
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William
Arthur Ward
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a
wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the
start, you’ll never stick it out. Steve Jobs
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set
aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know
when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it. Unknown (Submitted
by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change
opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically
when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t
care if they like it. Tina Fey
You don’t need a title to be a leader. Mark Sanborn
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to
dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an
excellent leader. Dolly Parton
A boss has the title, a leader has the people. Simon Sinek
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great
leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to
be. Rosalynn Carter
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. Kofi Annan
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen R. Covey
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. Warren Bennis
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself.
It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult. Warren Bennis
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. Warren Bennis
A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the
learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that
no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. David Star Jordan
You are judged in this world by how well you bring things
to an end. A messy or incomplete conclusion can reverberate for years
to come. Robert Greene
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jeanette Rankin
Leaders shouldn’t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can’t compromise. Peter F. Drucker
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. Patrick Ness
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. Friedrich Nietzsche
People don’t buy what do you, they buy why you do it. Simon Sinek
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. Warren Bennis
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John Maxwell
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. Mary D. Poole
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. Dianne Feinstein
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas John Carlisle
If you are rich and powerful but unhappy, what’s the point of being rich and powerful? Thich Nhat Hanh
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai Lama
When people talk, listen completely. Ernest Hemingway
Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess. Richard Branson
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mahatma Gandhi
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the
right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice
mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is
universal thing, taught by all religions. Thich Nhat Hanh
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. Marian Anderson
I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are. Joan Rivers
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and
you help them become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus
The art of communication is the language of leadership. James Humes
One of the toughest things for leaders to master is
kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for
others’ work. It’s a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not
looking weak. Travis Bradberry
Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last. Ian Hutchinson
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world. Francis Hesselbein
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the
greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man
is by appreciation and encouragement. Charles Schwab
Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly. Tony Robbins
Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel
like they’re having a one-on-one conversation, as if they’re the only
person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable
leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level. Travis
Bradberry
People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract. Pamela Stroko
Being a good leader requires remembering that you’re
there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn’t to have your way.
High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism – they
insist on it. Travis Bradberry
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly
everything you need to know about your organization’s overall
performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow.
Jack Welch
“Turned on” people figure out how to beat the
competition, “Turned off” people only complain about being beaten by the
competition. Ben Simonton
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals
of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of
energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in
their job. Ken Blanchard
The way your employees feel is the way your customers
will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your
customers. Sybil F. Stershic
Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter. Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings. James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Power isn’t control at all–power is strength, and giving
that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to
make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to
others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. Beth Revis
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is
humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle
and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting
yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.” Lao Tzu
Sharing emotions builds deeper relationships. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret. Mary Kay Ash
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller
Change before you have to. Jack Welch
Leadership is an ever-evolving position. Mike Krzyzewski
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Max De Pree
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. Warren Bennis
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow. Warren Bennis
Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would,
but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your
life will flow well. Epictetus
In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital. Warren Bennis
The higher you want to climb, the more you need
leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your
influence needs to be. John C. Maxwell
The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations,
disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned
citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever
has. Margaret Mead
There’s nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can’t
clearly articulate why we’re doing what we’re doing. James Kouzes and
Barry Posner
The domain of leaders is the future. The leader’s unique
legacy is the creation of valued institutions that survive over time.
The most significant contribution leaders make is not simply to today’s
bottom line; it is to the long-term development of people and
institutions so they can adapt, change, prosper, and grow. James Kouzes
and Barry Posner
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor
the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles
Darwin
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing
you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is
nothing you cannot achieve. Lao Tzu
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. Margaret Mead
What you do has far greater impact than what you say. Steven R. Covey
Good leaders see more in people than people see in themselves. Mark Sanborn
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. Jason Fried
That one can truly manage other people is by no means
adequately proven. But one can always manage one’s self. Indeed,
executives who do not manage themselves for effectiveness cannot
possibly expect to manage their associates and subordinates. Management
is largely by example. Peter F. Drucker
Disagreement, especially if forced to be reasoned,
thought through, documented, is the most effective stimulus we know.
Peter F. Drucker
The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. Pete Hoekstra
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it. Thomas Friedman
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t. Jack Ma (alibaba.com)
It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you
through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not
explicate. Robert Greene
Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations. John Seaman Garns
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. Warren Bennis
Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in
common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major
anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the
essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith
True leadership lies in guiding others to success–in
ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they
are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let
them see. Henry David Thoreau
It’s impossible to engage people when you’re not engaged
yourself, and if you’re not engaged then why should they be. Gordon
Tredgold
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann
Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions. Tony Robbins
To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. Pat Riley
True leaders don’t give consoling answers, they take constructive actions. Amit Kalantri
A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving. Debasish Mridha
No pressure, no diamonds. Thomas Carlyle
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot! Dr. Seuss
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony. Douglas Coupland
You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations. Stevie Wonder
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and
thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. Faye
Wattleton
Leaders should be able to stand alone, take the heat, bear the pain, tell the truth, and do what’s right. Max De Pree
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice. James Callaghan
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations. Bill Watterson
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth. Sonia Sotomayor
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a
man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Stephen R. Covey
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Leo Buscaglia
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations. Ryunosuke Satoro
Peace begins when expectation ends. Sri Chinmoy
One always expects something else. Erich Maria Remarque
We live as we dream – alone… Joseph Conrad
Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. Charles Bukowski
Great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Don’t be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. Nicky Gumbel
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. Henry A. Kissinger
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. Tim Fargo
If you want to find the real competition, just look in
the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second
place. Criss Jami
Don’t ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure. Joe Maddon
The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself. Mark Messier
Pressure is what you feel when you don’t know what’s going on. Chuck Noll
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second. Florence Welch
There are no road signs to help navigate. And in fact, no
one has yet determined which side of the road we’re supposed to be on.
Steve Case
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us
back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of
self-respect. Joan Didion
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. James Brown
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. Honoré de Balzac
All great and precious things are lonely. John Steinbeck
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of
expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work
through it all. V. S. Naipaul
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the
courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the
needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by
the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. Douglas
MacArthur
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. Lionel Shriver
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel
Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. Roy T. Bennett
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
If today were the last of your life, would you do what you were going to do today?
I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like:
‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most
certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for
the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked
myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I
am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘no’ for too
many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle.
Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride,
all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the
face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I
know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are
already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
And you can change it, you can influence it.
In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment – however you define it.
If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot.
When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is
the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world.
Try not to bash into walls too much. Try to have a nice family life,
have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be
much broader than that.
The only thing you have in your life is time. If you
invest that time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to
enrich you, then you can’t possibly lose.
There was a constant flow of intellectual questioning
about the truth of life. That was a time when every college student in
this country read Be Here Now and Diet for a Small Planet – there were
about ten books.
On being fired from Apple and called back 12 years later: What a circle of life. You know? Life is just always mysterious and surprising, and you never know what’s around the next corner.
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…
So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. We
could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out
sailing. Some of the executive team could be playing golf. They could be
running other companies. And we’ve all chosen to do this with our
lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it
is.
In business, if I knew earlier what I know now, I’d have
probably done some things a lot better than I did, but I also would’ve
probably done some other things a lot worse. But so what? It’s more
important to be engaged in the present.
I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
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.
I’ve always felt that death is the greatest invention of
life. I’m sure that life evolved without death at first and found that
without death, life didn’t work very well because it didn’t make room
for the young.
Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.
Without death, there would be very little progress.
You get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days.
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are
such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don’t
blame them. It’s really tough and it consumes your life.
If you’ve got a family and you’re in the early days of a
company, I can’t imagine how one could do it. I’m sure it’s been done
but it’s rough. It’s pretty much an eighteen hour day job, seven days a
week for awhile. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not
going to survive. You’re going to give it up.
You’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that
you want to right that you’re passionate about, otherwise you’re not
going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half
the battle right there.
I’ve read something that Bill Gates said about six months
ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what
he means because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally,
you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a
wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can’t do
it forever, and you don’t want to do it forever, and you have to come
up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and
working with other people even more.
I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but
working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost
everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it
at the end.
On the MacIntosh: When we finally presented it at the
shareholders’ meeting, everyone in the auditorium gave it a five-minute
ovation. What was incredible to me was that I could see the Mac team in
the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe we’d
actually finished it. Everyone started crying.
As it was clear that the Sixties were over, it was also
clear that a lot of the people who had gone through the Sixties ended up
not really accomplishing what they set out to accomplish, and because
they had thrown their discipline to the wind, they didn’t have much to
fall back on.
Pixar has been a marathon, not a sprint. There are times
when you run a marathon and you wonder, why am I doing this? But you
take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back,
remember the finish line, and keep going.
On the MacIntosh: It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.
My wife deserves all the credit for keeping me at it.
On his father: He was a machinist by trade and worked
very hard and was kind of a genius with his hands. He had a workbench
out in his garage where, when I was about five or six, he sectioned off a
little piece of it and said “Steve, this is your workbench now.” And he
gave me some of his smaller tools and showed me how to use a hammer and
saw and how to build things. It really was very good for me. He spent a
lot of time with me… teaching me how to build things, how to take
things apart, put things back together.
I can tell you this: I’ve been married for 8 years, and
that’s had a really good influence on me. I’ve been very lucky, through
random happenstance I just happened to sit next to this wonderful woman
who became my wife. And it was a big deal. We have 3 kids, and it’s been
a big deal. You see the world differently.
I’ve never been so tired in my life. I’d come home at
about ten o’clock at night and flop straight into bed, then haul myself
out at six the next morning and take a shower and go to work. My wife
deserves all the credit for keeping me at it. She supported me and kept the family together with a husband in absentia.
When you die, it doesn’t just all disappear.
Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe.
Ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it
more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s
’cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t
just all disappear. The wisdom
you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on, but sometimes I think it’s
just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone. And that’s why I
don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.
I think different religions are different doors to the
same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t.
It’s the great mystery.
But I believe life is an intelligent thing, that things aren’t random.
America aims at having a car for every citizen. I do not.
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who
always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives
himself into a false position.
The less you possess,
the less you want, the better you are. And better for what? Not for
enjoyment of this life, but for enjoyment of personal service to the
fellow-beings; service which you dedicate yourself, body, soul and mind.
Part 1. It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.
Part 2. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit.
Part 3. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action.
Part 4. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
There is really no slavery equal to that of the desires.
All the sages have declared from the house-tops that man can be his own
worst enemy as well as his best friend. To be free or to be a slave lies
in his own hands. And what is true for the individual is true for
society.
If by abundance you mean everyone having plenty to eat
and drink and to clothe himself with, enough to keep his mind trained
and educated, I should be satisfied. But I should not like to pack more
stuffs in my belly than I can digest and more things than I can ever
usefully use. But neither do I want poverty, penury, misery, dirt and
dust in India.
He who would sacrifice his life for others has hardly time to reserve for himself a place in the sun.
True humility means most strenuous and constant endeavor entirely directed towards the service of humanity.
Just as one must not receive, so must one not possess
anything which one does not really need. It would be a breach of this
principle to possess unnecessary food-stuffs, clothing, or furniture.
For instance, one must not keep a chair if one can do without it. In
observing this principle one is led to a progressive simplification of
one’s own life.
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility
and a little diffidence about the correctness of one’s conduct and a
little receptiveness.
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to
traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his
own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no
salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate
in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility,
tolerance, loving kindness.
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an
unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or
lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of
living beings.
One, who abandons all desires, is free from pride and selfishness and behaves as one apart, finds peace.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think
rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our
thought to the body.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with
taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment
following.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
A man must arrange his physical and cultural
circumstances so that they do not hinder him in his service of humanity,
on which all his energies should be concentrated.
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so
long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and
women.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn’t worth the name.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to
befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence
of true religion. The other is mere business.
I believe in the essential unity of all people and for
that matter of all lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains
spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole
world falls to that extent.
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that
God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our
ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see
that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run
into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love
for mankind.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has
been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of
human nature.
The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To
be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most
spotless.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the
servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale
into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held
superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for
their fulfilment.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we
are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the
children.
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
As for food, India has plenty of fertile land, there is
enough water and no dearth of man power… The public should be educated
to become self reliant. Once they know that they have got to stand on
their own legs, it would electrify the atmosphere.
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We
cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives.
The sum-total of that life is God.
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with
the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life,
even with such things as crawl upon earth.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some
stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the
satisfaction of our bodily wants.
Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man’s
supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon
the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there
should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had
also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a
poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship
against the whole world.
The basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral.
If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton,
even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my
vegetarianism.
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden
possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving
the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
The less I needed, the better I felt. Charles Bukowski
The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are. Mother Teresa
The more simple we are, the more complete we become. August Rodin
Receive without conceit, release without struggle. Marcus Aurelius
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein
He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods. Pythagoras
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. John Ruskin
Let’s stop telling each other how busy we are. Unknown
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. Seneca
Men are not great or small because of their material
possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. James
Cash Penney
My greatest skill has been to want little. Henry David Thoreau
Getting rid of everything that doesn’t matter allows you
to remember who you are. Simplicity doesn’t change who you are, it
brings you back to who you are. Courtney Carver
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. Will Rogers
Slow down. Do less. Maxime Lagacé
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is
the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in
the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang
Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. D.H. Mondfleur
Small needs lead to a large life. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t. Brian Gardner
The things you own end up owning you. Joshua Fields Millburn
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. Leo Babauta
To be richer, happier, and freer, all you need to do is want less. Francine Jay
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. William Of Occam
Eat, drink and love… the rest is not worth a nickel. Lord Byron
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks? Socrates
How many things are there which I do not want. Socrates
Best things in life aren’t things. Mike Ness
Order your soul. Reduce your wants. Augustine of Hippo
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Lao Tzu
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. Isaac Newton
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance. Buddha
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Dr. Seuss
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more
complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of
courage to move in the opposite direction. Ernst F. Schumacher
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. But it’s worth it in the end because
once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs
All the great things are simple, and many can be
expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
To be content, look backward on those who possess less
than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not
make you content, you don’t deserve to be happy. Benjamin Franklin
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our
temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau
Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or
a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your
accounts on your thumb-nail. Henry David Thoreau
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will
be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have
more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have
enough. Oprah Winfrey
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find
harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Warren Buffett
It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away
the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.
Bruce Lee
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. Steve Jobs
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple. Richard Branson
Don’t confuse having a career with having a life. Hillary Clinton
One should use common words to say uncommon things. Arthur Schopenhauer
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Plato
Smile, breathe and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh
The expression of truth is simplicity. Seneca
Saying no is more important than saying yes. Shane Parrish
The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding
Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less. John Maeda (The Laws Of Simplicity)
The simplest things are often the truest. Richard Bach
Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple. Natalie Babbitt
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu
Simplify, then add lightness. Colin Chapman
If you’re not saying “HELL YEAH!” about it, say “no.” Derek Sivers (Hell yeah! Youtube video)
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. Coco Chanel
If it isn’t a clear yes, then it’s a clear no. Greg McKeown
Simplicity is the essence of happiness. Cedric Bledsoe
The most complicated skill is to be simple. Dejan Stojanovic
The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. Augustus William Hare
Simplicity is the friend of execution. Sesan Kareem
Don’t rush. Go slowly. Be present. Leo Babauta
Owning less is great. Wanting less is better. Joshua Becker
You don’t need more space, you need less stuff. Joshua Becker
Addition by subtraction. Joshua Fields Millburn (The Minimalists)
Give all you can give and take only what you need. The Minimalists
A place for everything, and everything in its place. Francine Jay (Miss Minimalist)
Discern the vital few from the trivial many. Greg McKeown
I will not say yes when my heart says no. Courtney Carver
Own less. Do less. Declutter. Simplify. Unknown
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. Hank Stram
Poverty is my pride. Muhammed
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Jesus Christ
Live simply that others might simply live. Elizabeth Ann Seton
The height of sophistication is simplicity. Clare Boothe Luce
It is better to be good than to be original. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
In simplicity there is truth. River Phoenix
Simplicity is the glory of expression. Walt Whitman
It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple. Marty Rubin
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus. Edward de Bono
The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He is the richest who is content with the least. Socrates
I love to go and see all the things I am happy without. Socrates
It’s not what’s under the tree, it’s who’s around it. Charlie Brown
Expert: Someone who brings confusion to simplicity. Gregory Nunn
Better to have spent a minute meditating than tweeting. The Mimimalists
A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to
charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge
for. Chris Sacca
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the
uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better.
They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral
restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to
know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need
us to do their worrying. George Bird Evans
Simplify your life. You don’t grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. Steve Maraboli
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. Charles Dudley Warner
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. Albert Einstein
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. Frank A. Clark
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Barbara Kingsolver
Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. Thor Heyerdahl
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Henry David Thoreau
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from
having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.
Leo Babauta
Simplicity and harmony are the ultimate conditions to be attained in all things. Horace Fletcher
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple. Edward de Bono
Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies. Derek Landy
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated that we can conceive. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or
power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have
figured out how to live so that our lives matter. Harold Kushner
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Truthfully, though, most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding. Joshua Fields Millburn (The Minimalists)
My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a
commitment to what remains. That’s what I’ve been after. To care and
polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care. Sue
Bender
The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of
water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying,
without striving, the low place which all men dislike. Lao Tzu
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients
our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without
destroying us. Richard Foster
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky
