The best Quotes by John Locke

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Lies Men Taking action Talking

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Men Women

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Coco Chanel

Men

When a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.

Once-ler in The Lorax

Men

Tell a man: "I hate you" - you'II have the best sex of your Iife. But tell him: "I Iove you" - you'II probably never see him again.

Samantha Jones in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 10

Men Sex Singles & Dating

As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.

Coco Chanel

Men

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

George Lucas

Greed Jedi

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes

Greed Satisfaction

You see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.

Jigo in Princess Mononoke

Greed Climate Change

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

Greed War

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

Greed

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Greed Satisfaction

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice

Wealth & Richness

Wealth is a nightmare. With each coveted thing we buy, we lose a thing we dream about.

Bungo Stray Dogs

Wealth & Richness

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller

Greed Business Wealth & Richness

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

Garth Brooks (American singer/songwriter)

Money Wealth & Richness

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel

Money Wealth & Richness

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

William Jennings Bryan

Wealth & Richness

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Mark Cuban

Wealth & Richness

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

Work Giving Up Beginning

Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Money Work

If A is success in life, then A=x+y+z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Work Success

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

Work Kindness

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Walt Disney

Work Objectives

Barriers and obstacles are stairs that we take to go up.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ambition Work

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

Progress

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Progress

We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

Progress Curiosity

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)

Progress Change Risk Business

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

Al Gore

Progress

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

Werner Heisenberg

Progress Thinking

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

Progress

Innovation is about seeing things from a different perspective.

Amaury Guichon in School of Chocolate - Season 1 Episode 1

Innovation

I think America's strength is in innovation.

Lonnie Johnson

Innovation USA

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

Tim Sweeney

Innovation Video games

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

John Ray

Innovation Perfection

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Brene Brown

Failures & Mistakes Innovation

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical. At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Yeltsin

Character Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Innovation

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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