Inspiration
These are quotes, videos and stories I’ve collected…
Quotes
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Any damn fool can make something complex. It takes a genius to make something simple.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Video
Steve Jobs at Stanford Commencement Ceremony, 2005
