Life Quotes

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

—  Benjamin Franklin

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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Good organization multiplies your time by reducing wasted effort and decision-making later.

The Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

—  Warren Buffett

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Ask yourself who you’d want to spend the last day of your life with and then meet with them as often as you can.

—  Warren Buffett

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The Measure of Intelligence is The Ability to Change.

—  Albert Einstein

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

—  Albert Einstein

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

—  Richard Feynman

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Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.

—  Richard Feynman

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To sum up what mamba mentality is, it means to be able to constantly try to be the best version of yourself.

—  Kobe Bryant

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I think the definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you.

—  Kobe Bryant

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Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

—  Charlie Munger

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Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

—  Charlie Munger

Resilience is built by preparing for the hard version of life.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

—  Elon Musk

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No one errs or does wrong willingly or knowingly.

—  Socrates

People choose wrong because they believe it's right at the time. Mistakes come from missing knowledge, not bad character.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

—  Abraham Lincoln

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

—  Thomas Edison

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My belief is that risk is unquantifiable even after the fact.

—  Howard Marks

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You can't predict, but you can prepare.

—  Howard Marks

Prediction is a fantasy; readiness is a practice. Strong systems beat perfect forecasts.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

—  Plato

Purpose isn't found by waiting. It's built through what we choose to care about daily.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

—  Plato

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Anyone can become angry — that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — this is not easy.

—  Daniel Goleman

Reacting is instant. Responding well requires practice, pause, and judgment you develop slowly.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

—  Steve Jobs

Clarity comes after action, not before. Move first, understand later what it all meant.

One of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.

—  Steve Jobs

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

—  Arthur Schopenhauer

Live in the moment. Daily cycles mirror lifetime arcs. You practice living well by winning just one complete day.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

—  Arthur Schopenhauer

Resisting change wastes energy fighting the only constant. Adaptation isn't optional—it's the baseline requirement.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

—  John Lennon

Live in the present, as life often unfolds unexpectedly while we're focused on future plans.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

—  John Lennon

The true measure of a fulfilling life is not its duration or its hardships, but the quality of your relationships and the abundance of your joy.

Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.

—  Sam Altman

Inspiration decays faster than fruit. The gap between feeling ready and starting is where dreams die.

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.

—  Sam Altman

Success begins with positive thinking, intense focus, confidence in yourself, working extremely hard, and building meaningful relationships with others.

Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society. Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.

—  Naval Ravikant

Cultivate your inner mind while building assets in the real world.

Love is given, not received.

—  Naval Ravikant

The genuine feeling of love is generated by the act of giving it, not by the reward of receiving it. It reframes love as an internal ability to express care freely, rather than a transaction where you expect something in return.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

—  Aristotle

Identity is built through consistent behavior, not one-off effort. Excellence comes from small actions repeated until they become automatic.