Best Insightful Quotes

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Honesty is the best policy.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

If you’re not sure why you’re doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

They’re basically moments in which you’re in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

Then, in the 1980’s, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were ‘restructuring,’ ‘reengineering,’ and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that… ‘All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter’.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…

Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Man is what he believes.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Vanity prevents improvement

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.