Quotes by Great Quotes

“You learn to love yourself in the context of your relationships with others.” – Esther Perel

“Respect is like air. As long as it’s present, nobody thinks about it. But if you take it away, it’s all that people can think about. The instant people perceive disrespect in a conversation, the interaction is no longer about the original purpose—it is now about defending dignity.” ― Ron McMillan

“Treat attention as an on/off switch, not a dimmer. It should be 100% attention or 0% but not 60%.” – David Brooks

“Find a disagreement under the disagreement. There’s probably some philosophical reason we see it differently, so let’s explore what that is, it’s a more fun way to have a conversation.” – David Brooks

“The quality of your conversation depends on the quality of the questions you ask. So we should get really good at asking great questions.” – David Brooks

“It’s not naive to lead with respect. It’s not naive to lead with trust. It’s not naive to lead with curiosity. To me it’s the most practical and effective thing we can do in a time of brutal dehumanization.” – David Brooks

“Personal transformation and social transformation happen at the same time. How we each show up in the world is how we make a world.” – David Brooks

“Cynics aren’t cynical enough about their own cynicism.” – Jordan Peterson

“If you can’t understand other people, you’ll be miserable, and you’ll make people around you miserable.” – David Brooks

“When we meet somebody, there’s a series of unconscious questions going through our minds. Am I a priority to you? Am I a person to you? Will you respect me? And the answers to those questions are communicated in the eyes before any words come out of your mouth.” – David Brooks

“Success is not about reaching the goal itself. It’s about who we become in the process.” – Unknown

“Forget about goals, focus on systems instead. Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.” – James Clear

“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments” ― G.K. Chesterton

“It’s impossible to see anything without contrast.” – Shaun Roundy

“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” – G.K Chesterton

“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.” – G.K Chesterton

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ― G.K. Chesterton