“I once asked General Eisenhower’s son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn’t like.’”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“peaceful anarchy, than which nothing could be more impossible, given human nature as it is.”
Mortimer J. Adler Ten Philosophical Mistakes
“Every man desires to obtain additional wealth with as little sacrifice as possible.”
N.W. Senior in 1836 “laying down the first of the four principles of Political Economy” quoted in “What is Left of Adam Smith?” in Stephen Leacock On the Front Line of Life
“Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they’ll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.”
Margaret Thatcher quoted in the Epoch Times email newsletter Nov. 22 2020 (it appears to be a modified form of a quotation “Watch your thoughts; they become words” that I found online attributed to everyone from Lao Tzu to Gandhi to Frank Outlaw but Thatcher really did say the version quoted above)
“A wise man once said… nothing.”
Once again, and perhaps ironically, I succumb to the temptation of quoting myself (from May 5, 2002 for any real pedants in the audience)
“Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Are you attacking my reputation?” “No, I’m just commenting on how low it is.”
An exchange I had the privilege of witnessing between two of my co-workers some years back.
“You may come to ask yourself, ‘What should I do today?’ in a manner that means ‘How could I use my time to make things better, instead of worse?’”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram (quoting himself and all upper-case in the post) November 11 2020