“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” ― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” ― Captain Jean-Luc Picard

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”

• Mark Twain

“Before you criticize a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he’s angry, you’re a mile away… and you’ve got his shoes!”

Society flourishes when men plant trees which shade they will never lay under

This one - “I am mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved, even for a moment.”

These aren’t necessarily my favorite quotes, but they are the two I find myself referencing almost daily in my work life.

“We never seem to have the time to do it right, yet we always seem to find the time to do it twice.”

“You can save hours of planning with weeks of work.”

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

Sun-Tzu

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

• Mike Tyson

This is true on so many different levels. It helps me plan my life for situations when I “get punched” and will likely not be able to stay rational enough to follow the plan.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84171-critics-who-treat-adult-as-a-term-of-approval-instead

“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

― C.S. Lewis

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“Only a fool would rush scrambled eggs” - Marco Pierre White

I always think of the saying “it is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it”, this is a simplified version.

The original quote is “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt” and it is often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but that part is debatable.

Everyone thinks they’re the hero of their own story. - Handsome Jack

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

• Jack Handey

Once you’ve got a task to do, it’s better to do it than live with the fear of it. -Logen Ninefingers