The best Quotes by Robert Anthony

The best Quotes by Robert Anthony

Robert Newton Anthony (September 6, 1916 – December 1, 2006) was an American organizational theorist, and professor of management control at Harvard Business School, known for his work in the field of management control systems.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

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When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Change Motivation

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

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Foolishness Technology Generations

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

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Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

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Genius Foolishness

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Helmut Schmidt

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Foolishness Intelligence Doubt

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

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Universe Humanity Foolishness

Brom: "Because you can't argue with all of the fools in the world."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

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Foolishness Argument

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

Simba: "Looks like the winds are changing."
Rafiki: "Change is good."
Simba: "Yeah, but it's not easy."

Simba in The Lion King

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Darlin', "forever" is a long, long time and time has a way of changin' things.

Big Mama in The Fox and the Hound

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Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

Edwin Way Teale

Autumn & Fall Change

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

Sebastián Piñera

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

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Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

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Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

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Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

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Courage Risk Motivation

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Tenzin in The Legend of Korra

Fear doesn't need conquering. Fear tells you where the edge is. Fear is a good thing.

James Gordon in Gotham - Season 1 Episode 1

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Conan O'Brien

Maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun!"

Craig Ferguson

Fear Positive Quotes

Geralt: "Fear is an illness. If you catch it and you leave it untreated, it can consume you."
Ciri: "How do you treat it?"
Geralt: "You face it."

Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher - Season 2 Episode 1

Scared is good. It means your brain's working right, it means your body's fighting.

Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson in S.W.A.T. - Season 1 Episode 1

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Courage Adventures Feet

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Lord Beckett: "You're mad!"
Jack Sparrow: "Well thats good, cause if I wasn't, this'd probably never work."

Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - Am Ende der Welt

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Courage Craziness & Weirdness

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

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Dreaming Courage

It ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Rocky Balboa in Rocky Balboa

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It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Louis C. K. - 2017

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Relationships Marriage

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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Love Relationships

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lifes of those we touch.

Remember Me

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Soul Friendship Relationships

At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 Episode 10

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Couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don't let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time. If it's right, and they're real lucky, one of them will say something.

Perry Cox in Scrubs - Season 1 Episode 15

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A man once asked his father, 'Father, how will I ever find the right woman?'
His father replied 'Forget finding the right woman, focus on being the right man.'

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It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

William Paul Young in The Shack

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Love Relationships

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

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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