James > James's Quotes

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Neither compares nor competes.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones