Ironic, paradoxical, quirky quotes to make you think

  1. Be quick, but don’t hurry. ~ John Wooden
  2. The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins. ~ Piggy Lambert ,one-time Purdue Basketball coach
  3. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. ~ Henry Ford
  4. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. ~ Thomas Watson
  5. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most. ~ Unknown
  6. The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  7. A friend is a present you give yourself. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  8. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. ~ Alfred Adler
  9. Nothing too much. ~ inscription at temple of Delphi
  10. Arguing with a fool proves there are two. ~ Doris M. Smith
  11. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.~ Mohandas Gandhi
  12. You don’t have to be interesting. You have to be interested. ~ John Gottman
  13. Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ~ Oscar Wilde
  14. A true friend overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ~ Doug Larson
  15. The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory. ~ Unknown
  16. To the man with a hammer, every problem tends to look pretty much like a nail. ~ Unknown
  17. I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner
  19. Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing. ~ Ellen Langer
  20. Certainty is a cruel mindset. ~ Ellen Langer
  21. What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. ~ Ellen Langer
  22. That which we desire most earnestly we believe most easily. ~ Unknown
  23. What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination. ~ Unknown
  24. We tend to get what we expect. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
  25. Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. ~ A Sachs
  26. To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself. ~ Master Cheng Yen
  27. Memory is the residue of thought. ~ Daniel Willingham
  28. It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ~ Eddie Cantor
  29. Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here…Then I propose we postpone further discussion. . .to give ourselves time to develop disagreement. ~ Alfred Sloan
  30. To understand all is to forgive all. ~ French saying.
  31. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~ Franklin P. Jones
  32. Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~ Barnett R. Brickner
  33. Ideas that spread win. ~ Seth Godin
  34. I wish to have as my epitaph: ‘Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.’ ~ Andrew Carnegie
  35. Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives. ~ Albert Einstein
  36. The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  37. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. ~ Roy Croft
  38. Every exit is an entry somewhere. ~ Tom Stoppard
  39. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao-Tzu
  40. The reward of a thing done well is to have done it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  41. It is astonishing how long it takes to finish something you are not working on. ~ Unknown
  42. It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to. ~ Walter Linn
  43. Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ~ Howard Aiken
  44. How do I know what I think until I hear what I say? ~ E. M. Forster
  45. The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. ~ Linus Pauling
  46. Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. ~ Miguel Unamuno
  47. Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~ Robert Heinlein
  48. One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. ~ Robert Heinlein
  49. Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ~ Robert Heinlein
  50. When one teaches, two learn. ~ Robert Heinlein
  51. Belief gets in the way of learning. ~ Robert Heinlein
  52. What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. ~ Margaret Mead
  53. It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. ~ Mark Twain
  54. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln
  55. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year. ~ John Foster Dulles
  56. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done. ~ Peter Drucker
  57. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~ Peter Drucker
  58. We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. ~ Frank A. Clark
  59. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
  60. The one who loves least controls the relationship. ~ Unknown
  61. Life is not one thing after another. It’s the same damn thing over and over! ~ Unknown
  62. The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ~ George Bernard Shaw
  63. This too shall pass. ~ Persian proverb
  64. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
  65. Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ~ Thomas J. Watson
  66. We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. ~ Anais Nin
  67. Whoever best describes a problem is the one most likely to solve it. ~ Dan Roam
  68. What gets measured gets managed. ~ Peter Drucker
  69. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.~ Robert Frost
  70. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. ~ Elbert Hubbard
  71. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
  72. Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more. ~ William Cowper
  73. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. ~ Mark Twain
  74. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw
  75. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~ Mark Twain
  76. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. ~ Richard P.Feynman
  77. The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. ~ Michelangelo
  78. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain