To put the world right 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

He looks to the left
He looks to the right
And there in a golden ray of light
Is his open man
Just like he planned
The whole world is his tonight
— Fountains of Wayne

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the one to do it.
— Felix Dennis

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
— Steve Wozniak

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
— Oprah Winfrey

The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
— Zig Ziglar

All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head.
— Thomas Alva Edison

In a business like this, the people with the power are the ones that have the understanding of what's going on, not necessarily the ones on top. It is very important that those people who have the knowledge are the ones that make the decisions. So we setup something where everyone who had the knowledge had an equal say in what was going on.
— Gordon Moore, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore's Law

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
— Nikolai Gogol

Be more responsible
Complain less
Be more attentive
Make lesser mistake
— The motivational poster on the wall of a Taiwanese motherboard factory

We have prided ourselves on always being the cheapest guy on the block. We have always told our people we're the high volume, low price guy in the software business.
— Steve Ballmer

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
— Upton Sinclair

It is better for you to lie on a bed of straw and be free of fear than to have a golden couch and an opulent table, yet be troubled in the mind.
—Epicurus

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
— Mark Twain

There are no asterisks is this life, only scoreboards.
— Ari Gold

I never hold a grudge because while I am being angry, the other person is out dancing.
— Buddy Hackett

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
— Dalai Lama

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
— Edsger Dijkstra

Acquirers are human, and they have a hard time paying a bunch of young guys millions of dollars just for being clever.
— Paul Graham

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anais Nin

When I get sad I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.
— Barney

The book of love has music in it, In fact that's where music comes from. Some of it is just transcendental, some of it is just really dumb.
— Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields

Luck is probability taken personally. It is the excitement of bad math.
— Penn Jillette

Just to do your thing, is the hardest thing to do.
— Mama Cass

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
— Steve Jobs

An army marches on its stomach.
— Napoleon Bonaparte

All great innovations are built on rejections.
— Louis Ferdinand Celine

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
— Bertrand Russell

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
— Mark Twain

If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross... but it's not for the timid.
— All Good Things

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
— Thomas Edison

The only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
— Carl Sagan, Contact

When you're bored with yourself, marry, and be bored with someone else.
— David Pryce-Jones

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
— George W. Bush

In a decade-long study of real businesses, to be published soon, Amabile found that positive moods relate positively to creativity in organisations, and that the relationship is a simple linear one. Creative thought also improves people’s moods, her team found, so the process is circular. Time pressures, financial pressures and hard-earned bonus schemes on the other hand, do not boost workplace creativity: internal motivation, not coercion, produces the best work.
— Helen Phillips, New Scientist, Oct 29, 2005

Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
— Buddha

Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
— Kahlil Gibran

If you cannot find truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
— Dogen

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
— Persian proverb

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
— Buddha

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
— Idries Shah

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
— Sa'Di

It is unwise to be sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and wisest might err.
— Mahatma Gandhi

Heaven-sent calamities you may stand up against, but you cannot survive those brought on by yourself.
— Shu Ching

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
— Shunryu Suzuki

There is no place to seek the mind; It is like the footprints of birds in the sky.
— Zenrin

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
— Baba Ram Dass

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
— Ramana Maharishi

Those in a hurry do not arrive.
— Zen saying

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
— Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

Her belly may be full, but her spirit will be empty.
— Chain of Command

Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette, or a chocolate cookie, or a five second orgasm.
— Denis Leary

Not all who wander are lost.
— J.R.R. Tolkien