27 Quotes by Socrates that will inspire you

11/03/2023 by

QUOTES BY SOCRATESWhen you think about it, we can’t be sure that Socrates actually existed because he was apparently born around 399 BC. That was a long time before real records began.

However, Socrates is regarded as a classical Greek philosopher, and he was considered to be the first moral philosopher. In fact, he’s been credited as being one of the founders of Western philosophy.

History suggests that he didn’t write anything during his own lifetime, and his philosophy, therefore, is known primarily through the written accounts of other classical scholars.

So it really is hard to know whether any of the quotes credited to him were actually spoken by him.

Nevertheless, the philosophy credited to him is worthy of our consideration and further reflection. So here are 27 Quotes by Socrates that will make you think I am sure.

Quotes by Socrates (1-10):

  1. Be as you wish to seem.
  2. Wisdom begins in wonder.
  3. Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
  4. It is not living that matters but living rightly.
  5. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
  6. The deepest desires often become the deadliest hate.
  7. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
  8. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
  9. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
  10. Marry, by all means. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Quotes by Socrates (11-20):

  1. The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
  2. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
  3. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
  4. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
  5. Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
  6. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
  7. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
  8. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear.
  9. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
  10. He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Quotes by Socrates (21-27):

  1. The unexamined life is not worth living.
  2. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
  3. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
  4. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear.
  5. Worthless people live only to eat and drink. People of worth eat and drink only to live.
  6. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us.
  7. If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

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33 Clever One-Liners Guaranteed to Make You Smile

10/30/2023 by

CLEVER ONE-LINERSI love funny and clever one-liners, and over time, I collect them in a journal. And when I’ve got enough, I like to share them with readers. Anything that makes readers smile always results in a great reaction.

So today I offer you my latest collection, which I think are all very clever one-liners.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to identify the original authors, so I must classify them all as Author Unknown.

However, I’d be happy to add acknowledgements to each quote if readers can enlighten me accordingly.

So if you know who wrote them originally, then please let me know.

I’m sharing these clever one-liners with you because I am confident they’ll make you smile, dear reader.

Certainly, they all made me smile, so I do hope you enjoy them too.

Clever One-liners (1-11):

  1. My mind’s made up; don’t confuse me with facts.
  2. Arguing with your wife is unwise. Even if you win you lose.
  3. Education is important, but other stuff is more importanter.
  4. Support bacteria. They’re the only culture some people have.
  5. Refusing to go to the gym counts as resistance training, right?
  6. Red meat is not bad for you. Fuzzy green meat is bad for you.
  7. When I found out my toaster wasn’t waterproof, I was shocked.
  8. You can’t make me do what you want me to do, you’re not my cat.
  9. Don’t you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.
  10. I can keep secrets, of course. It’s the people I tell them to who can’t.
  11. The best way to get back on your feet is to miss a couple of car payments.

Clever One-liners (12-22):

  1. I’ve got a great pizza joke, but I warn you, it’s very cheesy.
  2. My resolution was to read more, so I put the subtitles on my television.
  3. I really hate it when people ask for likes on social media. Like if you agree!
  4. My wife just found out I replaced our bed with a trampoline; she hit the roof.
  5. The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.
  6. When I was at school 52% of the class was good at maths. I was one of the other 38%.
  7. You know you’re fat when you step on a speak-your-weight scale and it says, “One at a time please!”
  8. You can’t lose a homing pigeon. If your homing pigeon doesn’t return, then what you’ve lost is a pigeon.
  9. I wonder what my parents did to fight boredom before the internet. I asked my 17 siblings, but they didn’t know either.
  10. If you take away looks, money, intelligence, charm, and success, there’s no difference between me and George Clooney.
  11. I got called pretty yesterday, and it felt really good. Well, the full sentence was “You’re pretty annoying,” but I like to focus on the positive.

Clever One-liners (23-33):

  1. I have a pen that can write underwater. It can write other words too!
  2. I may be ugly now, but one day I’ll be rich enough for you to find me attractive.
  3. A friend of mine tried to annoy me with bird puns, but toucan play at that game.
  4. Did you know that 50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class?
  5. My buddies and I started a band called 999 Megabytes. We haven’t gotten a gig yet.
  6. I’m a great multitasker. I can procrastinate, fret, and worry about it all at the same time.
  7. I told my plant about my problems; it said I needed to grow a spine. Talk about photosympathy!
  8. I once entered a pun contest. I submitted ten puns, hoping one would win, but no pun in ten did.
  9. My memory is terrible. On the plus side, watching reruns on television is always a new experience.
  10. When my suitcases realized there’d be no vacation this year, it left me dealing with emotional baggage.
  11. I accidentally swallowed some food colouring. The doctor says I’ll be fine, but I feel like I’ve dyed a little inside.

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How to love your job when you hate it

10/29/2023 by

How to love your job when you hate itHow to love your job when you hate it? A question I’ve been asked numerous times. My response is always the same. The best way to appreciate the job you have is to imagine your life without it.

That starts with taking a closer look at what’s good about it.

Life’s too short to hate your job:

Do you hate your job, dear reader?

Do you tell everyone, at every opportunity, that you hate your job?

By telling everyone you hate your job, do you imagine they’ll be impressed or, in some way, feel sympathy for you?

Maybe you think that by doing this, your fellow workers will regard you as someone unafraid to speak their mind.

Perhaps you think that in the eyes of your fellow workers, this approach will make you look good.

Hold that thought, and then consider this question. How do you feel about working with someone else who’s always moaning about how unhappy they are at their job?

Do you admire that person?

Do they impress you with their negativity?

I guess that your response to my question will be negative. I’m sure you’ll be unimpressed with such people. After all, most of us are.

Everyone hates a moaner:

If you imagined that moaning about how unhappy you are was the best way to get people on your side, then seriously, you need to think again. Everyone hates a moaner, whatever indications you’ve heard to the contrary. Let me tell you this: no one’s impressed.

Your colleagues may not say so, but they’ll find your negativity irritating at the very least. It’s probably driving them all nuts.

Life’s short, and it’s hard enough for most people. So having some moaning Minnie constantly bringing them down just makes life harder.

Constant negativity is just a pain in the rear for most people.

Imagine your life without your job:

If your current mindset means you hate your job right now, then the first thing to do is start changing that mindset. Start by looking at your job differently.

How?

Well, imagine your life without your current job. What would that be like? Think about that question carefully, and be honest with yourself.

Without your job, you’d have nothing to do; no reason to get out of bed; nowhere to go; no sense of purpose; nothing to challenge you; no money; and you’d be without the camaraderie of your fellow workers. You’d probably feel lonely and lack any real social life too.

How would that make you feel?

Would you feel better about yourself without those things?

I’m sure if you’re honest with yourself, you’ll realise that work gives us far more than we realise. I don’t think you’d be happy without all those things mentioned above.

So the best way to begin appreciating your job is to imagine your life without it.

No job is perfect:

Most jobs come with an element of frustration and a spoonful of tedium. That’s life.

No job is perfect, but no job is all bad either.

It’s just a matter of how you choose to look at things.

If you focus on the bad things, then everything will seem bad. However, if you focus on the good bits, then your job can begin to look very different, and you’ll start to feel more positive about your work.

The fact is, we all need to do something with our time, surely?

Even millionaires need something to fill their time.

There are only so many holidays you can take and so much shopping you can do.

Eventually, everyone needs a sense of purpose, and we all want to feel that we’re making a contribution to the world around us.

Life’s a short movie:

Life’s far too short to be unhappy.

So if you hate your job, then you have two choices:

  1. You find another job, or
  2. You start looking differently at your current job.

And before you start searching the vacancy columns or the job websites, think carefully about what you might be throwing away should you leave your current job.

Moving to another job doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be any happier.

Neither will it guarantee that you’ll find the perfect job for you.

So it’s worth thinking seriously about your current job first. At least it’s the devil you know.

Can you begin to look at your current job differently? Perhaps you need a little help.

I really hate my job:

Here’s a great motivational speech from the one and only Zig Ziglar that you might find very useful.

It’s full of great advice and well worth a few minutes of your time.

If you don’t like your job right now, then you really should watch it.

Even if you do like your job, watch it anyway. I found it truly inspirational. So take a look at it now.

Further Listening:

I’m a huge fan of Zig Ziglar but I recognize that he had an evangelical presentation style that’s not to everyone’s taste.

However, if you can get beyond that presentation style, then his words are inspirational and informative.

I particularly like his audiobooks, which I listen to constantly when I’m driving.

One audiobook I can recommend is:

The Born to Win Seminar

Listen to this, and I promise you it will help you discover your untapped greatness and guide you towards greater success in life.

I bought my own copy of this audio program for my own personal library, and it was well worth the price. I listen to it over and over again, and I always find something new in his words.

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27 witty one-liners so good you’ll laugh out loud

10/28/2023 by

Witty One-LinersNow, do you fancy a bit of a laugh? A few witty one-liners, maybe?

Would you really like something to make you smile?

You’d love to have a laugh or two, but you don’t have the time to enjoy anything for too long, right?

Well, fear not. It’s important you make at least a little time for a laugh. It will make you feel so much better.

Today I offer you 27 witty one-liners that are guaranteed to make you smile.

They all made me smile, and I’m confident that some of them will brighten your day too.

If you enjoy humor that’s concise and razor-sharp, then this collection of witty one-liners is just for you, dear reader.

So go on, take a minute or two, and have a good laugh right now. Enjoy them all.

Witty One-Liners (1-10):

  1. I think the worst thing about driving a time machine will be your kids in the back always moaning, ‘Are we then yet?‘ ~Paul F Taylor
  2. If you don’t know what introspection is, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself. ~Ian Smith
  3. I wanted to be a baker, but I never rose to the challenge. ~Author Unknown
  4. I’m writing a book on reverse psychology. Please don’t read it. ~Author Unknown
  5. Crime in multi-storey car parks? That’s wrong on so many different levels. ~Tim Vine
  6. As a kid, I was made to walk the plank. We couldn’t afford a dog. ~Gary Delaney
  7. I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting! ~Stewart Francis
  8. I heard a rumour that Cadbury is bringing out an oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese Wispa. ~Rob Auton
  9. I needed a password eight characters long, so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. ~Nick Helm
  10. I’m not a very muscular man; the strongest thing about me is my password. ~Rory O’Keeffe

Witty One-Liners (11-20):

  1. Is it possible to mistake schizophrenia for telepathy? I hear you ask. ~Jordan Brookes
  2. I was trying to write a novel about puns, but it just turned out to be a play on words. ~Author Unknown
  3. I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia, and she whispered, ‘They’re right behind you.’ ~Author Unknown
  4. One thing you’ll never hear a Hindu say, ‘Ah well, you only live once.’ ~Hardeep Singh Kohli
  5. My Dad told me to invest my money in bonds. So, I bought 100 copies of Goldfinger. ~Nick Hall
  6. If you arrive fashionably late in Crocs, you’re just late. ~Joel Dommett
  7. People say I’ve got no willpower, but I’ve quit smoking loads of times. ~Kai Humphries
  8. I tried to write a pun about the wind, but it just blew away. ~Author Unknown
  9. My friend got a personal trainer a year before his wedding. I thought, ‘Bloody hell, how long’s the aisle going to be?‘ ~Paul McCaffrey
  10. It all starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies, but before you know it you’re adding raisins and marshmallows – it’s a rocky road. ~Olaf Falafel

Witty One-Liners (21-27):

  1. I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: This could be interesting. ~Paddy Lennox
  2. I used to be a baker, but I could never make enough dough. ~Author Unknown
  3. Whenever I see a man with a beard, moustache, and glasses, I think, There’s a man who has taken every precaution to avoid people doodling on photographs of him. ~Carey Marx
  4. “What’s a couple?’ I asked my mom. She said, “Two or three.’ Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed. ~Josie Long
  5. I think the bravest thing I’ve ever done is misjudge how much shopping I want to buy and still not go back to get a basket. ~Stuart Laws
  6. Jokes about white sugar are rare. Jokes about brown sugar, Demerara. ~Olaf Falafel
  7. Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge? ~Dan Antolpolski

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15 inspirational quotes about travel to get you thinking

10/27/2023 by

QUOTES ABOUT TRAVELToday I offer you some quotes about travel.

Travel can be an education, and certainly, it broadens the mind. Wouldn’t you agree, dear reader?

I have had the privilege of travelling to more than 70 countries. In fact, I’ve been fortunate enough to live and work in many of them. And I can say this: I’m not the same person I was once, quite simply because of those experiences.

I see the world differently now. I know from real experience that people are the same wherever you go.

There may be superficial cultural differences, of course, but deep down, people are all just people. We eat; we sleep; we laugh; we cry; we’re happy; we’re sad; we all have dreams; we all have fears; we love our families, even when they drive us mad, and we want the best for our children. And of course, we all share feelings of vulnerability at times too.

There are good people in this world, and there are not-so-good people too, but most people are honest and decent, and they’re just trying to get through life as best they can. Treat them with respect, and they’ll reciprocate, or at least that has been my experience.

So travel as often as you can, but remember this: there’s a difference between travel and tourism.

Tourism is simply taking in the sights and a little sunshine, perhaps.

Travel is a much more enlightening experience. It goes beyond the superficial, and it’s about trying to understand people and the reality of life as it is for them.

Here are 15 inspirational quotes about travel to get you thinking.

Quotes About Travel (1–10):

  1. It is better to travel well than to arrive. ~Buddha
  2. To travel is to take a journey into yourself. ~Danny Kaye
  3. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ~Ernest Hemingway
  4. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ~Frank Borman
  5. A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
  6. One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more. ~Thomas Jefferson
  7. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. ~Lawrence Durrell
  8. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley
  9. The traveller sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
  10. If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. ~Dan Rather

Quotes About Travel (11–15):

  1. Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travellers don’t know where they’re going. ~Paul Theroux
  2. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~Mary Ritter Beard
  3. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ~Samuel Johnson
  4. People who don’t travel cannot have a global view. All they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. ~Martin Yan
  5. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. ~Maya Angelou

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35 Quotes by C.S. Lewis that are thought-provoking

10/26/2023 by

Quotes-by-CS-LewisToday I thought it might be interesting to explore some quotes by C.S. Lewis.

Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. At various times he held academic positions in English literature at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in England.

C.S. Lewis is probably best known for his works of fiction, especially The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy, as well as for his non-fiction work.

Lewis wrote more than 30 books which have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies.

He was a successful man, and, as I always say, it’s a good idea to listen to successful people.

So here are 35 quotes by C.S. Lewis. I hope you find them both interesting and thought-provoking.

Enjoy them all, and please feel free to pass them on to your friends.

Quotes by C.S. Lewis (1-15):

  1. We are what we believe we are.
  2. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
  3. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
  4. Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
  5. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
  6. It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
  7. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
  8. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
  9. You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
  10. With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
  11. Reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
  12. How incessant and great are the ills with which prolonged old age is replete?
  13. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
  14. I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
  15. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Quotes by C.S. Lewis (16-25):

  1. The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
  2. Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
  3. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
  4. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
  5. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
  6. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
  7. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
  8. Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
  9. This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
  10. Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Quotes by C.S. Lewis (26-30):

  1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
  2. What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
  3. A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience that is not slavery.
  4. If I find in myself a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
  5. History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Quotes by C.S. Lewis (31-35):

  1. Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise, you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
  2. We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
  3. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
  4. ‘The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’
  5. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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27 Quotes by Nelson Mandela guaranteed to inspire you

10/25/2023 by

Quotes-by-Nelson-MandelaAs he was one of the most influential people of the 20th century, I thought it would be interesting to explore some quotes by Nelson Mandela.

The late Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was well-known as a South African anti-apartheid activist, political leader, and philanthropist who served as the president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

He was South Africa’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

He achieved his goals through his strength of character, an unshakeable conviction, and a willingness to forgive past wrongs. In his years as president, his approach was that of a forward-looking, consensus-oriented politician working for the greater good.

History will judge the degree to which he was successful, but undoubtedly, he was a man who made a major impact on history.

So, here are 27 quotes by Nelson Mandela that I think are guaranteed to inspire you.

Enjoy them all, and please feel free to pass them on.

Quotes by Nelson Mandela (1-10):

  1. Forget the past.
  2. There is no such thing as part freedom.
  3. It always seems impossible until it’s done.
  4. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
  5. I dream of an Africa which is at peace with itself.
  6. Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
  7. No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
  8. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
  9. Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
  10. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Quotes by Nelson Mandela (11-20):

  1. To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
  2. Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
  3. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
  4. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
  5. It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
  6. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
  7. There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
  8. As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
  9. I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
  10. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Quotes by Nelson Mandela (21-27):

  1. There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
  2. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
  3. For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
  4. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
  5. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
  6. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
  7. Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

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25 laser-sharp quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte to inspire you

10/23/2023 by

Quotes-by-Napoleon-BonaparteFor any readers unfamiliar with European history, Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.

Ultimately defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, he was subsequently exiled by the British to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died in 1821 at the age of 51.

Nevertheless, he was a major influence on European history and many of the quotations for which he is credited are certainly thought-provoking.

Here are 25 quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte to illustrate my point. They’re definitely worth reading, and my personal favourite is the first one. However, number 5 is also a pretty accurate reflection of what most of us now know to be true.

Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte (1-12):

  1. A leader is a dealer in hope.
  2. Imagination rules the world.
  3. An army marches on its stomach.
  4. History is a set of lies agreed upon.
  5. In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
  6. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
  7. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
  8. The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
  9. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
  10. The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
  11. There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
  12. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte (13-25):

  1. Quote-by-Napoleon-BonaparteMen are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.
  2. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
  3. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon.
  4. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
  5. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
  6. I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
  7. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
  8. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
  9. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
  10. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
  11. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
  12. There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run, the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
  13. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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How to get motivated and achieve big things

10/22/2023 by

How-to-get-motivatedHow to get motivated and achieve big things is a common question I’m asked. Coming up with ideas is easy, but getting motivated can be much harder.

Do you have a problem getting motivated? You know what you’d like to do, but you just can’t seem to get going.

Many people feel this way, and, if I’m honest, I can be like that too. So whenever I struggle to get going, I like to watch a motivational video or listen to a motivational podcast or audiobook.

When I need a little push, I listen to people who inspire me. People like Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, and Brian Tracy.

And here’s another inspiring speaker from TEDxVirginiaTech. In this video, Scott Geller talks about the psychology of self-motivation. I found this very useful, and I hope you will too.  Certainly, it’s worth your time to listen to it.

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How to stop worrying and start living

10/21/2023 by

How-to-stop-worrying.webpWe all tend to worry a bit more than we should.

Worrying is natural, but it is rarely helpful. It just adds to our stress levels. And what’s the worst thing that can happen anyway?

And even if it did happen, would worrying have stopped it from happening?

Life’s too short to stress ourselves out with worry.

The question is, how do we stop ourselves from worrying? Well, consider this idea.

Dale Carnegie’s book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living is a very useful guide. This book is a great personal development text and it’s well worth reading. I can strongly recommend it to you.

How to stop worrying:

However, until you have the chance to read it this animated video provides a useful summary of the key ideas in the book.

So I can recommend you watch this video now and then read the book whenever you get the chance.

Further reading:

Readers serious about their own personal development will be keen to establish their own small library of motivational resources I’m sure.

Dale Carnegie’s book would be an essential addition to any personal development library and it can be purchased HERE.

Go on, check it out now whilst it’s fresh in your mind.

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