“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

“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

“‘An angry man,’ said Confucius, ‘is always full of poison.’”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“One good thing about silence is that it can’t be repeated.”

Variously attributed online including anonymously.

“It is admitted, one may hope, that common things are never commonplace. Birth is covered with curtains precisely because it is a staggering and monstrous prodigy. Death and first love, though they happen to everybody, can stop one’s heart with the very thought of them.”

G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World

“when we scrape away the varnish of wealth, education, class, ethnic origin, parochial loyalties, we discover that however much we’ve changed the shape of man’s physical environment, man himself is still sinful, vain, greedy, ambitious, lustful, self-centered, unrepentant, and requiring of restraint.”

Barry Goldwater With No Apologies (though elsewhere in the book even he said new technologies and ideas might make the world way better in the 21st century)