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Oscar Wilde foto

“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Ne! Neříkej, že se mnou souhlasíš. Když se mnou lidé souhlasí, vždy cítím, že se musím mýlit.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

Albert Einstein foto

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
Svět je nebezpečné místo k životu, ne kvůli lidem, kteří jsou zlí, ale kvůli lidem, kteří s tím nic neudělají.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Varianta: The world is dangerous, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

John Cage foto

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
Nechápu, proč se lidé bojí nových myšlenek. Já se bojím těch starých.

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) Conversing with Cage
1980s

Joseph Campbell foto

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
Život nemá žádný smysl. Každý z nás má smysl a vnáší ho do života. Je zbytečné klást si tu otázku, když vy jste odpovědí.

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Margaret Mead foto

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Vždy mějte na paměti, že jste naprosto jedineční. Stejně jako všichni ostatní.

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Varianta: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Nicholas Sparks foto

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
Důvodem, proč rozchod tolik bolí je to, že naše duše jsou propojené.

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Homér foto

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
Člověk, který prošel trpkými zkušenostmi a urazil dlouhou cestu, si po čase užívá i své utrpení.

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Zdroj: The Odyssey

Emily Dickinson foto

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
Příroda je dům , v němž straší - ale umění je dům, který se snaží, aby v něm strašilo.

Emily Dickinson kniha The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Varianta: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
Zdroj: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.”
Láska může být často zavádějící a přinášet tolik škody jako užitku, ale úcta může přinášet jen dobro. Předpokládá, že postavení druhého člověka je stejně vysoké jako naše vlastní, jeho práva stejně oprávněná a jeho potřeby stejně důležité.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Zdroj: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Isaiah Berlin foto

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
Svoboda pro vlky často znamenala smrt pro ovce.

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Peter F. Drucker foto

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Vědomosti je nutné neustále doplňovat, zkvalitňovat, podcěňovat a zvyšovat, nebo se vytratí.

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Albert Einstein foto

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”
Člověk, který příliš mnoho čte a málo používá mozek, si osvojí líné myšlení.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
William Shakespeare foto

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
Poslouchej mnohých, ale promluv jen s několika.

Zdroj: Hamlet

Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Být sám sebou ve světě, který se neustále snaží z vás udělat někoho jiného, je největším úspěchem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Rosalía de Castro foto

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.”
Vidím svou cestu, ale nevím, kam vede. To, že nevím, kam jdu, mě inspiruje k tomu, abych se po ní vydal.

Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885) Galician poet, writer
Michael Ende foto

“Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.”
Teprve správné pojmenování dává bytostem a věcem jejich realitu. Špatné pojmenování činí vše neskutečným. To dělají lži.

Michael Ende kniha Nekonečný příběh

Zdroj: The Neverending Story

Oscar Wilde foto

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.”
Umění nachází svou vlastní dokonalost v sobě, nikoli mimo sebe. Nemá být posuzována podle žádných vnějších měřítek podobnosti. Je spíše závojem než zrcadlem.

Oscar Wilde kniha Intentions

Intentions (1891)

George Bernard Shaw foto

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
Dodržujte pravidlo, aby jste nikdy nedávali dítěti knihu, kterou byste sami nečetli.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Oscar Wilde foto

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Smích není špatný začátek přátelství a je jeho nejlepším koncem.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Varianta: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Jerome K. Jerome foto

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Mám rád práci: fascinuje mě. Můžu sedět a dívat se na ni celé hodiny.

Jerome K. Jerome kniha Tři muži ve člunu

Varianta: I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Zdroj: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 15.
Kontext: It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Mark Twain foto

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
Nejzajímavější informace přicházejí od dětí, protože ty řeknou všechno, co vědí, a potom zmlknou.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Marcus Tullius Cicero foto

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Místnost bez knih je jako tělo bez duše.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Attributed to Cicero in J. M. Braude's Speaker's Desk Book of Quips, Quotes, & Anecdotes (Jaico Pub. House, 1966), p. 52.
Dennis McHenry in a 2011 post at theCAMPVS.com http://thecampvs.com/2011/08/03/cicero-on-books-and-the-soul/ identified a source for the exact form of words in the essay "On the Pleasure of Reading" http://books.google.com/books?id=0YfQAAAAMAAJ&dq=cicero%20%22room%20without%20books%22%20%2B%22contemporary%20review%22&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q&f=false by Sir John Lubbock, published in The Contemporary Review, vol. 49 (1886) https://archive.org/details/contemporaryrev55unkngoog, pp. 240–51 https://archive.org/stream/contemporaryrev55unkngoog#page/n250/mode/2up, in which Lubbock wrote that "Cicero described a room without books as a body without a soul" (p. 241). The same sentence may also be found on p. 61 https://archive.org/stream/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft#page/60/mode/2up of Lubbock's collection The Pleasures of Life. Part I. 18th edition (London and New York : Macmillan and Co. 1890) https://archive.org/details/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft, in a lecture titled "A Song of Books". McHenry suggested that Lubbock may have had in mind the words "postea vero quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit mens addita videtur meis aedibus" at Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.8, which are translated by E. O. Winstedt on p. 293 https://archive.org/stream/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft#page/292/mode/2up of Cicero: Letters to Atticus I (London : William Heinemann, and New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912) https://archive.org/details/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft "Since Tyrannio has arranged my books, the house seems to have acquired a soul", and by Evelyn Shuckburgh on p. 234 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012541433#page/n283/mode/2up of The Letters of Cicero. Vol. I. B. C. 68–52 (London : George Bell and Sons 1908) https://archive.org/details/cu31924012541433 "Moreover, since Tyrannio has arranged my books for me, my house seems to have had a soul added to it" (although the Latin word " mens http://athirdway.com/glossa/?s=mens", rendered "soul" by both Winstedt and Shuckburgh, is more usually translated by the English "mind"). D. R. Shackleton Bailey in Cicero's Letters to Atticus (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1978), p. 162, translated "And now that Tyrannio has put my books straight, my house seems to have woken to life".
Disputed
Varianta: Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima" A room without books is like a body without a soul

Percy Bysshe Shelley foto

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
Naše nejsladší písně jsou ty nejsmutnější.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Zdroj: The Complete Poems

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Pamatujte-si, nikdo vás nemůže přimět k tomu, abyste se cítili méněcenní bez vašeho souhlasu.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Disputed
Varianta: No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Zdroj: Sometimes claimed to appear in her book This is My Story, but in The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes (2006), Keyes writes on p. 97 that "Bartlett's and other sources say her famous quotation can be found in This is My Story, Roosevelt's 1937 autobiography. It can't. Quotographer Rosalie Maggio scoured that book and many others by and about Roosevelt in search of this line, without success. In their own extensive searching, archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, have not been able to find the quotation in This Is My Story or any other writing by the First Lady. A discussion of some of the earliest known attributions of this quote to Roosevelt, which may be a paraphrase from an interview, can be found in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/30/not-inferior/.

George Orwell foto

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
Volba pro lidstvo leží mezi svobodou a štěstím a pro velkou část lidstva je štěstí lepší.

George Orwell kniha 1984

Zdroj: 1984

Robert E. Lee foto

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
Vzdělání člověka není dokončené, dokud nezemře.

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175

Sylvia Plath foto

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
Prosím, nečekej ode mě, že budu vždycky hodná, laskavá a milující. Jsou chvíle, kdy budu chladná, bezohledná a těžko pochopitelná.

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Dorothy Parker foto

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
Těm, kdo znají bouři, se dělá špatně z klidu.

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Zdroj: Sunset Gun: Poems

George Carlin citát: “A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.”
George Carlin foto

“A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.”
Dobré životní motto zní: Vždy se snaž nezemřít.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Zig Ziglar foto

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in ‪Primary Education‬ (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.
Misattributed

Joseph Campbell foto

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
Váš posvátný prostor je ten, kde můžete znovu a znovu nacházet sami sebe.

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Michael E. Porter foto

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
Podstatou strategie je volba toho, co nedělat.

Michael E. Porter (1947) American engineer and economist

Zdroj: What is strategy?, 1996, p. 70

Emile Zola foto

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
Umělec není ničím bez nadání, ale nadání není ničím bez práce.

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎ (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.

Oscar Wilde foto

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
Konzistence je charakteristickým znakem nepředstavitelnosti.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

"The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14062/14062-h/14062-h.htm (February 28, 1885)
reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991).
Varianta: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Herbert Marcuse foto

“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
Svobodná volba pánů neznamená konec pánů ani otroků.

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist
John Locke foto

“What worries you, masters you.”
Co vás trápí, to vás ovládá.

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
Marilyn Monroe foto

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
Pokud dokážete dívku rozesmát, dokážete ji donutit udělat cokoliv.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
C.G. Jung foto

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”
Pýcha nás neustále klame. Ale hluboko pod povrchem průměrného svědomí nám tichý, malý hlas říká, že něco není v pořádku.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
John Nash foto

“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”
Školy otupí vaši mysl, zničí potenciál vaší jedinečné tvořivosti.

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
William Shakespeare foto

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
Nejdřív zabijeme všechny právníky.

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Dick the Butcher, Act IV, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Zdroj: King Henry VI, Part 2

Arthur Conan Doyle foto

“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
"Výborně!" Vykřikl jsem. "Elementární," řekl.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Zdroj: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Oscar Wilde foto

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Pouze nudní lidé jsou oslniví u snídaně.

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Mrs Chevely, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
Pokud vás někdo jednou zradí, je to jeho chyba; Pokud vás zradí podruhé, je to vaše chyba.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Oscar Wilde foto

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
V tomto světě existují pouze dvě tragédie. První je, když nedostaneme, co chceme, a druhá, když to dostaneme.

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Mr. Dumby, Act III
Varianta: There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Oscar Wilde foto

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Je na světě jen jedna horší věc než to, že se o někom mluví, totiž to, že se o něm nemluví.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Varianta: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“Happiness is not a goal… it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
Štěstí není cílem; je to vedlejší produkt dobře žitého života.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Varianta: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Zdroj: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 95
Kontext: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

Bruce Lee foto

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
Přijměte to, co je užitečné, odmítněte to, co je zbytečné a přidejte to, co je konkrétně vaše vlastní.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Varianta: Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own
Zdroj: Bruce Lee — Wisdom for the Way

Zig Ziglar foto

“Make today worth remembering.”
Zajistěte, aby si dnešní den si zasloužil zapamatování.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Simone de Beauvoir foto

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
Život člověka má hodnotu tak dlouho, dokud přikládá hodnotu životům ostatních.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
B.K.S. Iyengar foto

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”
Láska plodí odvahu, umírněnost vytváří hojnost a pokora vytváří sílu.

B.K.S. Iyengar kniha Light on Yoga

Zdroj: Light on Yoga

Zhuangzi foto

“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
Nechte se unášet vším, co se může stát, a nechte svou mysl volnou: zůstaňte soustředění a přijímejte vše, co děláte. To je nejdůležitější.

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

Zdroj: Nan-Hua-Ch'en-Ching, or, the Treatise of the transcendent master from Nan-Hua

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.”
Výhodou špatné paměti je, že si člověk může užít stejné dobré věci poprvé několikrát.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Human, All Too Human

I.580
Human, All Too Human (1878)

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
Ženy jsou jako čajové sáčky. Nikdy nevíte, jak jsou silné, dokud je nevložíte do horké vody.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199. But once again archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
A very similar remark was attributed to Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (29 March 1981): "A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
Variants:
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag; you can't tell how strong she is and how much to trust her until you put her in hot water.
Disputed

William Shakespeare foto

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Zdroj: Hamlet

Stephen R. Covey foto

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Většina lidí neposlouchá s úmyslem porozumět; poslouchají s úmyslem odpovědět.

Stephen R. Covey kniha 7 návyků skutečně efektivních lidí

Zdroj: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 239
Zdroj: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Zig Ziglar foto

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”
Nemusíte být skvělí, abyste začali, ale musíte začít, abyste byli skvělí.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Nepřítomnost srdce rozněžňuje.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Mark Twain foto

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
Přestat kouřit je nejsnadnější věc na světě. Já to mohu potvrdit, zkusil jsem to už nejmíň tisíckrát.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Theodore Roosevelt foto

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
Kdybyste mohli kopnout do zadku člověka, který je zodpovědný za většinu vašich potíží, tak by ste si měsíc nesedli.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Leo Tolstoy foto

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him.”
Abychom se zbavili nepřítele, musíme ho milovat.

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Oscar Wilde citát: “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Oscar Wilde foto

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Nemám co prohlásit, kromě mé geniality.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Rick Riordan foto

“The real world is where the monsters are.”
Skutečný svět je tam, kde jsou příšery.

Rick Riordan kniha The Lightning Thief

Zdroj: The Lightning Thief

Oscar Wilde foto

“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Zkušenost je název, který dáváme svým chybám a omylům.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Varianta: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Varianta: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontext: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [First used by Wilde in Vera; or, The Nihilists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera;_or,_The_Nihilists. ]

Michel De Montaigne foto

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Nejjistějším znakem moudrosti je veselost.

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
William Blake foto

“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”
Ti, kdo ovládají své vášně, tak činí proto, že jejich vášně jsou natolik slabé, že je lze ovládat.

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Agatha Christie foto

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
Život je opravdu těžký. Muži se k vám nebudou chovat hezky, když nebudete dobře vypadat, a ženy se k vám nebudou chovat hezky, když dobře vypadat budete.

Agatha Christie kniha The Man in the Brown Suit

Zdroj: The Man in the Brown Suit

Theodore Roosevelt foto

“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Nejlepší co můžete udělat v každém okamžiku rozhodování je udělat správnou věc, druhé nejlepší je udělat špatnou věc a to nejhorší je neudělat nic.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

As quoted by John M. Kost http://www.mackinac.org/bio.aspx?ID=104 (25 July 1995) in S. 946, the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996).
This appears to derive from a 1910 advertisement by writer Alfred Henry Lewis for a forthcoming series of biographical articles about Roosevelt: "All activity, Mr. Roosevelt has often shown that it is better to do the wrong thing than do nothing at all. In politics this last is peculiarly true. The best thing is to do the right thing; the next best is to do the wrong thing; the worst thing of all things is to stand perfectly still". (e.g. in La Follette's Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=RV4CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA183&dq=%22best+thing%22+%22right+thing%22+%22worst+thing%22+nothing&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNksu-nZrMAhVDy2MKHSl1Df8Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22the%20best%20thing%20is%20to%20do%20the%20right%20thing%22&f=false (28 May 1910)
Disputed

William Faulkner foto

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
Jako by nešlo ani tak o to, co člověk dělá, ale o to, jak se na něj většina lidí dívá, když to dělá.

William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying

Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

Winston S. Churchill foto

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Psi k nám oddaně vzhlížejí, kočky se na nás dívají svrchu, ale prasata na nás pohlížejí jako na sobě rovné.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Christopher Soames, speech at the Reform Club (28 April 1981), reported in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Volume Eight: Never Despair: 1945–1965. p. 304
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Varianta: I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Kontext: [Christopher Soames, Churchill's future son-in-law, remembered] Churchill showing him around Chartwell Farm [around 1946]. When they came to the piggery Churchill scratched one of the pigs and said: I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Ernest Hemingway foto

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
Si tak statečný a tichý, až jsem zapomněl, že trpíš.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Varianta: you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.

Oscar Wilde foto

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
Dnes večer jsem již sám sebou unaven. Chtěl bych být někým jiným.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

George Orwell foto

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
Celí lidé chtějí být dobří, ale ne příliš dobří, a ne úplně pořád.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Zdroj: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Madeleine K. Albright foto

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life”
Učili mě, že se mám snažit ne proto, abych měl záruku úspěchu, ale proto, že samotná snaha je jediný způsob, jak si udržet víru v život.

Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State

On her upbringing, Madam Secretary (2003), p. 512
2000s
Zdroj: Madam Secretary: A Memoir

John Lennon foto

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
Nepotřebujete nikoho, kdo vám řekne, kým nebo čím jste. Jste tím, kým jste!

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Bob Marley foto

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”
Moje hudba bude znít věčně. Možná je to hloupost, ale když znám fakta, můžu je říct. Moje hudba bude znít věčně.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
John Muir foto

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

July 1890, page 313
(From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series (1844) "Essay VI: Nature": "the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.")
John of the Mountains, 1938
Kontext: It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Arthur Miller foto

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
Pamatuj si, že rychleji získáš zpět ukradený milion dolarů než slovo, které jsi vyřkl.

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

Varianta: You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
Zdroj: A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

Marcus Aurelius foto

“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Cílem života není být na straně většiny, ale uniknout tomu, aby jsme se ocitli v řadách šílených.

Marcus Aurelius kniha Hovory k sobě

Misattributed
Zdroj: The first citation appears in a translation of Leo Tolstoy's Bethink Yourselves! http://www.nonresistance.org/docs_htm/Tolstoy/~Bethink_Yourselves/BY_chapter08.html by NONRESISTANCE.ORG. The claim made that it is from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations, nor does it appear in a 1904 translation of Bethink Yourselves http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/bethink-yourselves/8/. The 1904 translation may be abridged, whereas the NONRESISTANCE.ORG translation claims to be unabridged.

Bjarne Stroustrup foto

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
Existují jen dva druhy jazyků: ty, na které si lidé stěžují, a ty, které nikdo nepoužívá.

Bjarne Stroustrup kniha The C++ Programming Language

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
Zdroj: The C++ Programming Language

Terry Pratchett foto

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Je to stále kouzlo, i když víte, jak se to dělá.

Terry Pratchett kniha Klobouk s oblohou

Varianta: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Zdroj: A Hat Full of Sky

Oscar Wilde foto

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
Svět se změnil, protože jsi ze slonoviny a zlata. Křivky tvých rtů přepisují dějiny.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Virginia Woolf foto

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Mám hluboce skrytou a nevyřčenou touhu po něčem, co přesahuje každodenní život.

Virginia Woolf kniha Moments of Being

Zdroj: Moments of Being

Gabriel García Márquez foto

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
Skutečný přítel je ten, co vás drží za ruku a dotýká se vašeho srdce.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Varianta: Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!

Thomas Mann foto

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”
Kdo miluje víc, je podmaněn a musí trpět.

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Oscar Wilde foto

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
Nejkrásnější pocit na světě je udělat dobrý skutek anonymně - a nechat někoho to zjistit.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Michel De Montaigne foto

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
Nestarám se příliš o to, kým jsem před druhými, ale o to, kým jsem sám před sebou. Budu bohatý tím, co mám, ne tím, co si půjčím.

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book II, Ch. 16
Attributed

C.G. Jung foto

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Dokud neučiníte nevědomé vědomým, bude to řídit váš život a vy to budete nazývat osudem.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”
Moudrý člověk musí být schopen nejenom milovat své nepřátele, ale zároveň nenávidět své přátele.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Ecce Homo

Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
Foreword, in the Oscar Levy authorized translation.
Variant translations:
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Ecce Homo (1888)

Bertolt Brecht foto

“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Umění není zrcadlem, které držíte před společností, ale kladivem, kterým společnost formujete.

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Mistakenly attributed to Vladimir Mayakovsky in The Political Psyche (1993) by Andrew Samuels, p. 9; mistakenly attributed to Brecht in Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter (1993) by Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard, p. 80; variant translation: "Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it."
First recorded in Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (1924; edited by William Keach (2005), Ch. 4: Futurism, p. 120): "Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes."
Disputed

Oscar Wilde foto

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
Nemá žádné nepřátele, ale jeho přátelé ho nemají rádi.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Bruce Lee foto

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
Všimněte si, že nejtužší strom se nejsnáze zlomí, zatímco bambus nebo vrba přežijí díky ohýbání s větrem.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Robert Frost foto

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
Polovina světa se skládá z lidí, kteří mají co říci a nemohou, a druhá polovina z těch, co nemají co říct, a neustále o tom povídají.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Varianta: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Louis Aragon foto
John Wooden foto

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
Úspěch pramení z vědomí, že jste udělali maximum pro to, abyste se stali tím nejlepším, kým jste schopni se stát.

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
John Nash foto

“I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.”
Nemohu ztrácet čas ve škole četbou těchto knih, abych se učil nazpaměť slabomyslné domněnky průměrných smrtelníků.

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
Oscar Wilde foto

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Lidé dnes znají cenu všeho, ale hodnotu ničeho.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Varianta: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontext: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]

Napoleon Hill foto

“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Pokud nemůžete dělat velké věci, dělejte malé věci skvělým způsobem.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Theodore Roosevelt foto

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
Odvaha neznamená mít sílu na to, aby jsi pokračoval; ale pokračovat i když nemáš sílu.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Robert A. Heinlein foto

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Láska je stavem, ve které je štěstí jiné osoby nezbytné pro vaše vlastní štěstí.

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
Změnou svého postoje můžete často změnit okolnosti.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

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