Ask HN: What quote most inspires you?

"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." (I used not to know when to shut up or stop defying authority, and my career paid for it)

Oh, that is one problem I have... I ALWAYS tell people the truth. If I think what they're saying is bullshit, I tell them that, without sugarcoating it. It has got me into trouble a few times, but it surprises me that people have accepted it for so long :) It's something that I have to work on though... Restraint is very difficult when you're in the right.

"The past is created from the present, not the other way around."

"The measure of change is not whether the outside is changed, the measure of change is whether you respond differently to the outside even if its still looks the same. That’s how you know you’ve changed"

--Bashar

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

I believe Bertrand Russel would have replied:

"Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery."

One of my favorite :-

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." —Michael Jordan