# Quotes MOC [[Home]] > [[Quotes MOC]] Never stay up late for something you would never get up early for. %%#quotes/core%% %%#quotes/mindset%% You do not get to do what a natural gets to do. %%#quotes/core%% %%#quotes/mindset%% ^b700ed An amateur practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can't get it wrong. %%#quotes/core%% %%#quotes/mindset%% Someday is not a day of the week. %%#quotes/core%% %%#quotes/mindset%% Hope for the best, brace for the worst. %%#quotes/core%% %%#quotes/mindset%% Character is how you act when no one is looking. %%#quotes/core%% %%#quotes/mindset%% Never call somebody out on their mistakes in front of a group of peers. %%#quotes/mindset%% If you can't find time to exercise and take care of yourself, you'll have to find time to be ill. %%#quotes/mindset%% Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. — Hanlon's razor %%#quotes/mindset%% Never throw a stone and hide your hand. %%#quotes/mindset%% [Motion before emotion.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/kk7ueu/lpt_exercise_when_you_dont_want_to/) %%#quotes/mindset%% Suffer in silence. %%#quotes/mindset%% A wise man once said nothing at all. %%#quotes/mindset%% Be a good man, not a nice man. %%#quotes/mindset%% Pretty girls like to be called smart and smart girls like to be called pretty. %%#quotes/mindset%% It is better to be both loved and hated by some than to be liked by all and loved by no one. %%#quotes/mindset%% [If my aim is to prove I am “enough,” the project goes on to infinity—because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/76620-the-six-pillars-of-self-esteem) %%#quotes/mindset%% You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. %%#quotes/mindset%% Law is made for man, not man for law. %%#quotes/mindset%% Boredom is for lazy people who have no imagination. %%#quotes/mindset%% Don't be a polite victim. %%#quotes/mindset%% You only have to be brave for a second, the rest will take care of itself. %%#quotes/mindset%% An entire ocean of water cannot sink a ship, unless it gets inside the ship. %%#quotes/mindset%% You can't finish your book if you keep re-reading this chapter. %%#quotes/mindset%% Nothing ever happens until it happens to you. %%#quotes/mindset%% If you don't ask for what you want, you'll never get it. %%#quotes/mindset%% Acceptance is the fire that burns grief. %%#quotes/mindset%% Enduring an injustice makes you a person, but enduring a loss makes you a pushover. — _The Second Coming of Gluttony_, Chapter 199 %%#quotes/mindset%% God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. — [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer) %%#quotes/mindset%% When someone shows you who they are, believe them. — Anonymous Reddit user %%#quotes/mindset%% [If you make no wishes at all, then none of your wishes will come true.](https://flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2019/07/26/the-day-it-snowed-wishes/) %%#quotes/wish%% Don't be sad because it ended, be happy because it happened. — Dr. Seuss %%#quotes/end%% Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — Søren Kierkegaard %%#quotes/life%% Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern. %%#quotes/randomness%% Moments like this are rare. You think you may not be ready. But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. — Ted Kennedy to Barack Obama %%#quotes/time%% I can't do anything about it if you've decided to hate me… But if that's not it, then whatever it is, you're overthinking it. — Tomo-chan, Volume 7 p70 %%#quotes/relationship%% You must and you will. Because you can. — Grovyle, _Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky_ %%#quotes/duty%% Age is not the number of years that you have been living. Age is the condition of your soul. — [Armen Sarkissian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armen_Sarkissian) %%#quotes/age%% You always had the courage within you, Mell. You simply needed a little help finding it. — Michel, _The House in Fata Morgana_ %%#quotes/courage%% J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it's big and up close. Sometimes it's a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it's not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji. — Terry Pratchett %%#quotes/fuji%% Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. — Oscar Wilde %%#quotes/witty%% À défaut de parler de fond, on l'a rapidement atteint. — [Maurice Midena](https://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/la-france-aime-voir-le-bock-cote-des-choses) %%#quotes/witty%% If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. — Nietzsche %%#quotes/truth%% If your body is chronically deprived of the regenerative sleep between 10pm and 2am, then you may still feel fatigued when you wake up in the morning. — Dr Kulreet Chaudhary %%#quotes/sleep%% ^7ab361 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paolo Freire %%#quotes/power%% %%#quotes/neutrality%% ^66407d The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral. — John F. Kennedy %%#quotes/crisis%% %%#quotes/neutrality%% ^99a58c A playground is a great place to be a bully, and a terrible place to be a victim, if the teachers don't care _who started it._ — Eliezer Yudkowsky %%#quotes/neutral%% %%#quotes/power%% ^9407a7 Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. — John Ehrlichman, Nixon advisor %%#quotes/history%% %%#quotes/drugs%% No plan survives first contact with the enemy. — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Field Marshal %%#quotes/plan%% %%#quotes/war%% The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — _The Life of the Mind_, Hannah Arendt %%#quotes/evil%% If the truth about your conduct paints you in a bad light, the problem isn't with the truth; it is with your conduct. — [/u/Current-Read](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/zh2g3s/aita_for_responding_to_my_fathers_request_for_a/) Tout le malheur des hommes vient de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre. — Blaise Pascal ^a069d2