“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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229 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics
“I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”
Elon Musk · On joining the internet industry, various interviews
“When I was a child, there's one thing that made me feel the most despair, which was reading about the heat death of the universe.”
Elon Musk · Interview, various
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost · Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length, 1942
“I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
Robert Frost · The Figure a Poem Makes, 1939
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the classroom.”
Robert Frost
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
Robert Frost
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost · The Road Not Taken, 1916
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Robert Frost · The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
Voltaire
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
Voltaire · The Age of Louis XIV, 1752
