"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."

Epicurus on misfortunes
3 fans of this quote   

"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

Epicurus on skill
4 fans of this quote   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand."

Euripides on planning
4 fans of this quote   

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

Euripides on assertiveness   

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."

Euripides on attitude
8 fans of this quote   

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."

Feinstein, Dianne on excellence   

"Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death."

Ferber, Edna on writers and writing
5 fans of this quote   

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

Fellini, Frederico on passion
7 fans of this quote   

"People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty."

Faulkner, William on age and aging   

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

Faulkner, William on art
4 fans of this quote   

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass."

Faulkner, William on art   

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Faulkner, William on action
9 fans of this quote   

"Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

Faulkner, William on books - reading
9 fans of this quote   

"The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing   

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

Faulkner, William on criticism
3 fans of this quote   

"I am more important than my problems."

Ferrer, Jose on courage
9 fans of this quote   

"A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate."

Ferrer, Jose on wish and wishing
3 fans of this quote   

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

Field, Sally on judgment and judges
3 fans of this quote   

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."

Firestone, Harvey S. on excellence
3 fans of this quote   

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."

Firestone, Harvey S. on success   

"Success is the sum of details."

Firestone, Harvey S. on success   

"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment."

Firestone, Harvey S. on business   

"Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on thoughts and thinking
4 fans of this quote   

"I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally."

Fitzgerald, Zelda on love
7 fans of this quote   

"Oh, the secret life of man and woman --dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest."

Fitzgerald, Zelda on wish and wishing   

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

Flack, Roberta on suffering
8 fans of this quote   

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

Flaubert, Gustave on courage   

"In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective."

Foch, Ferdinand on goals   

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Foch, Ferdinand on soul
4 fans of this quote   

"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home."

Foote, Shelby on novelty   

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
28 fans of this quote   

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on dream
4 fans of this quote   

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on joy   

"What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on experts   

"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on happiness
7 fans of this quote   

"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on health
4 fans of this quote   

"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on importance
7 fans of this quote   

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on ability
9 fans of this quote   

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on problems
3 fans of this quote   

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on self-esteem
7 fans of this quote