Shane Cummins > Shane 's Quotes

“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. ”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“friendship and love blind every man to their interests.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Stop being a pussy and go do something amazing.”
― Johnny B. Truant, The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You

“There's a drinking game in Heaven, where angels do a shot every time humans invest 'for the long term.”
― Johnny B. Truant, The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You

“We act like what we do today will forever alter the flow of creation, of time, of space.”
― Johnny B. Truant, The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You

“If you do nothing, you are nothing. If someone could pluck you from existence and nothing would change, you've failed.”
― Johnny B. Truant, How to Live Forever

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche