#wisdom

Victory breeds victory. Leadership summons participation ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#inspiration #leadership #life #politics #victory

...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#discipline #leadership #management-theory #motivational #organization-wisdom

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#maturity #war #wisdom #age

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#eternal-life #human-desire #immortality #money #wisdom

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#wisdom #age

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#information-age #internet #knowledge #politics #truth

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paradox #truth #wisdom #age

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#humor #old #wisdom #age

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#life-experience #life-lessons #wisdom #age