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Albert Einstein foto

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
Kdo nebere pravdu vážně v malých věcech, tomu nelze věřit ani v těch velkých.

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

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
Ode dneška se chovejte ke každému, koho potkáte, jako by měl o půlnoci zemřít. Dejte mu všechnu péči, laskavost a pochopení, jakého jste schopni, a vůbec přitom nepřemýšlejte o jakékoli odměně. Váš život už nikdy nebude stejný.

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author
René Descartes foto

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
Největší mysli jsou schopny největších neřestí i největších ctností.

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Marilyn Monroe foto

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”
Sexsymbol se stává věcí. Nesnáším být věcí.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Kontext: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.

Confucius foto

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
Schopnosti nikdy nedohoní poptávku po nich.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
William Faulkner foto

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
Možná měli pravdu, když vkládali lásku do knih. Možná by nemohla žít nikde jinde.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
T.S. Eliot foto

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
Lidstvo nedokáže snášet krutou realitu.

T.S. Eliot kniha Four Quartets

Zdroj: Four Quartets

F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
Není zmatku jako zmatek prosté mysli...

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

Leo Tolstoy foto

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
Nejlepší příběhy se nerodí z příběhu dobra proti zlu, ale dobra proti dobru.

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Erich Fromm foto

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
Láska není něco přirozeného. Spíše vyžaduje disciplínu, soustředění, trpělivost, víru a překonání narcismu. Není to pocit, je to cvičení.

Erich Fromm kniha Umění milovat

Zdroj: The Art of Loving

Leo Tolstoy foto

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
Člověk dokáže žít a být zdravý aniž zabíjel zvířata kvůli jídlu. A proto, pokud konzumuje maso, podílí se na zabíjení zvířat jen kvůli svému apetitu. Takto jednat je nemorální.

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)

George Carlin foto

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
Pokud se pokusíte selhat, a uspějete, co jste pak provedli?

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Pearl S.  Buck foto

“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”
Láska nemůže být vynucena, láska nemůže být vymámena, ani vydrážděna. Přichází znenadání, nežádaná a nehledaná.

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
Albert Einstein foto

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
Nedělejte si starosti ohledně vašich potíží v matematice. Můžu vás ujistit, že ty moje jsou stále větší.

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

Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
1940s

Jean Paul Sartre foto

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Leo Tolstoy foto

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Pouze lidé, kteří jsou schopni silně milovat, mohou také trpět velkým smutkem, ale stejná nutnost milování slouží k potlačení jejich zármutku a uzdravuje je.

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Jane Austen foto

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
Srdce jí našeptávalo, že to udělal pro ni.

Jane Austen kniha Pýcha a předsudek

Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice

Leo Tolstoy foto

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
Vždy jsem tě milovala, a pokud někdo miluje někoho, miluje celou osobu, takovou, jaká je, a ne takovou, jakou by si přál, aby byla.

Leo Tolstoy kniha Anna Karenina

Varianta: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Zdroj: Anna Karenina

Samuel Taylor Coleridge foto

“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”
Co vychází ze srdce, jde do srdce.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Marilyn Monroe foto

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”
Jen proto, že si jednou selhal neznamená, že selžeš ve všem. Zkoušej dál, vytrvej a věř si. Protože pokud si ty nevěříš, tak kdo bude?

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Francis Bacon foto

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Naděje je dobrou snídaní, ale ne večeří.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Varianta: Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox foto

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Každá láska, která není založena na přátelství, je jako hrad postavený na písku.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

Alice Walker foto

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Žádný člověk není vaším přítelem, pokud vás žádá o mlčení nebo vám upírá právo na růst.

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist
Maya Angelou foto

“All great achievements require time.”
Všechny velké úspěchy vyžadují čas.

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Dr. Seuss foto

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Dnes jsi Ty, to je víc než pravda. Neexistuje nikdo, kdo je víc ty než Ty.

Dr. Seuss kniha Happy Birthday to You!

Varianta: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Zdroj: Happy Birthday to You!

“This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
To je poslední zkouška gentlemana: jeho úcta k těm, kteří mu nemohou být nijak prospěšní.

William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American author, critic and scholar
Francesco Petrarca foto

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
Zkratkou k bohatství je ubrat ze svých tužeb.

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet
Winston S. Churchill foto

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Historie ke mně bude laskavá, protože ji mám v úmyslu psát.

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

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
Opravdu se cítím sám sebou jen tehdy, když jsem nesnesitelně nešťastný.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
Vystřihněte všechny tyto vykřičníky. Vykřičník je jako se smát vlastnímu vtipu.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Anaïs Nin foto

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Vlastnictví vědomostí nezabíjí smysl pro úžas a tajemství. Vždycky existuje další tajemství.

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Confucius foto

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
To, co hledá velký člověk, je v něm samém. To, co hledá obyčejný člověk, je v druhých.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
Skutečným nebezpečím není, že počítače začnou myslet jako lidé, ale že lidé začnou myslet jako počítače.

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
Albert Einstein foto

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
Pokud chcete žít šťastný život, svázejte ho s cílem, ne s lidmi nebo předměty.

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

As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
Attributed in posthumous publications
Varianta: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false

Marilyn Monroe foto

“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero you're the beautiful one it's society who's ugly.”
Pro všechny dívky, které si myslí, že jsi tlustá, protože nemáš velikost nula. Ty jsi jedinečná a krásná. To ta společnost je ošklivá.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed

Richard Bach foto

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
Štěstí je odměnou za to, že žijeme podle nejvyššího práva, které známe.

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Zdroj: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

Thomas Jefferson foto

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Věřím v štěstí, a přijde mi, že čím tvrději pracuji, tím víc toho mám.

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
Misattributed
Varianta: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Varianta: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Robert Southey foto

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”
Ztráta přítele je jako ztráta končetiny; čas může zahojit bolestnou ránu, ale ztrátu nelze napravit.

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Albert Einstein foto

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Otázka, která mě někdy znejistí: jsem bláznivý já nebo ostatní?

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

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
Největším problémem komunikace je iluze, že už k ní došlo.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/,
Misattributed

Marilyn Monroe foto

“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
Žiju, abych uspěla, ne abych potěšila tebe nebo někoho jiného.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Zdá se, že lidé nevidí, že jejich názor na svět je také vyznáním jejich charakteru.

Ralph Waldo Emerson kniha The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

Vincent Van Gogh foto

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Ti, kteří sní ve dne, jsou si vědomi mnoha věcí, které unikají těm, kteří sní jen v noci.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Albert Einstein foto

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Gravitace není zodpovědná za to že se lidi zamilují.

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

Varianta: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Guy De Maupassant citát: “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Guy De Maupassant foto

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
V životě existuje pouze jedna dobrá věc, a to láska.

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

"The Love of Long Ago"
Zdroj: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Kontext: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

André Breton foto

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”
Mraky rychle mizely a nechávaly hvězdy umírat. Noc vyschla.

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Zdroj: The Magnetic Fields

John Dewey foto

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
Dosažení jednoho cíle je východiskem k jinému.

John Dewey kniha Democracy and Education

Zdroj: Democracy and Education

Robert A. Heinlein foto

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Můžeš mít mír nebo můžeš mít svobodu. Ale nerátaj s tím, že budeš mít obojí najednou.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

Pearl S.  Buck foto

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
Jíst chléb bez naděje znamená pomalu umírat hlady.

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"To the Young"
Zdroj: To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Charles Darwin foto

“The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
Nejvyšším stupněm morální kultury, kterého můžeme dosáhnout, je poznání, že bychom měli ovládat své myšlenky.

Charles Darwin kniha The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 101 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=114&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

John Steinbeck foto

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
Je větší tma, když světlo zhasne, než kdyby nikdy nesvítilo.

John Steinbeck kniha The Winter of Our Discontent

Zdroj: The Winter of Our Discontent

Marcus Aurelius foto

“Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”
Všechno, co se děje, se děje tak, jak má, a když to pozorně sledujete, zjistíte, že je to tak.

Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Ancient Rome
George Carlin foto

“How is it possible to have a civil war?”
Jak je možné rozpoutat občanskou válku?

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Woody Allen foto

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
Pokud neustále neselháváte, je to znamení, že neděláte nic průkopnického.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
Odvažte se žít život, o kterém jste snili. Jděte kupředu a splňte své sny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Winston S. Churchill foto

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Neustále úsilí - ne síla nebo inteligence - je klíčem k uvolnění našeho potenciálu.

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

First mentioned as "Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking and using our potential." according to Quote Investigator in the 1981 book The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery by Liane Cordes, Quote Page 89, Hazelden Publishing, Center City, Minnesota. For further research on this quote see: Quote Investigator (August 31, 2013): Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential Winston Churchill? Liane Cordes? Liane Cardes? Apocryphal? Archived http://archive.is/E0M12 on June 2, 2020.
Zdroj: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/21/effort/ from the original

John Milton foto

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
Samota je někdy nejlepší společnost.

John Milton kniha Ztracený ráj

Zdroj: Paradise Lost

André Gide foto

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
Nikdy nepřeplujete oceán, dokud nemáte odvahu ztratit břeh z dohledu.

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Jean Paul Sartre foto

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
Člověk je odsouzen na svobodu; protože jakmile je vržen do světa, je zodpovědný za vše, co dělá.

Jean Paul Sartre kniha Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness (1943)

Marilyn Monroe foto

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
Věděla jsem, že patřím veřejnosti a světu, ne proto, že jsem talentovaná nebo dokonce krásná, ale proto, že jsem nikdy nepatřila nikomu a ničemu jinému.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Helen Keller foto

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Žádný pesimista nikdy neobjevil tajemství hvězd, neplavil se do neznámých zemí, ani neobjevil nové obzory lidské duše.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Martin Luther King, Jr. foto

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
Války jsou špatným dlátem pro vytesávání mírových zítřků.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Ernest Hemingway foto

“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Člověk není stvořen pro porážku. Člověka je možné zničit, ale ne porazit.

Ernest Hemingway kniha The Old Man and the Sea

Varianta: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Zdroj: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Elie Wiesel foto

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Přátelství poznamenává život ještě hlouběji než láska. U lásky hrozí, že se zvrhne v posedlost, přátelství není nikdy nic jiného než sdílení.

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Charles Bukowski foto

“Without literature, life is hell.”
Bez literatury je život peklem.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow foto

“Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Velkým prvkem úspěchu je vytrvalost. Stačí, když budete dostatečně dlouho a hlasitě klepat na vrata, a určitě někoho probudíte.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Marcus Tullius Cicero foto

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
Přátelství zlepšuje štěstí a potlačuje bídu zdvojnásobením našich radostí a rozdělením našich zármutků.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge foto

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
Rady jsou jako sníh; čím jemněji padají, tím déle na nich člověk setrvává a tím hlouběji se vrývají do mysli.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Woody Allen foto

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Osmdesát procent úspěchu je dorazit tam, kam máte.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Charles Bukowski foto

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
Jsme jako růže, které se nikdy neobtěžovaly rozkvést, když měly, a slunce jako by bylo znechuceno čekáním.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Paul Theroux foto

“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”
Své dny si nemohu prodloužit, a tak se snažím, aby byly co nejlepší.

Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist
Thomas Jefferson foto

“I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Rozdílné názory v politice, náboženství nebo filozofii nikdy nepovažuji za důvod, proč se od přítele distancovat.

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications

Robert F. Kennedy foto

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
Tragédie je pro živé nástrojem k získání moudrosti, nikoli vodítkem k životu.

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

"Conflict in Vietnam and at Home" speech http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/filmmore/ps_ksu.html at Kansas State University on March 18, 1968 as part of the Alfred M. Landon Lectures on Public Issues.

Sigmund Freud foto

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Většina lidí ve skutečnosti nechce svobodu, protože svoboda zahrnuje odpovědnost a většina lidí se bojí odpovědnosti.

Sigmund Freud kniha Civilization and Its Discontents

Zdroj: Civilization and Its Discontents

P.G. Wodehouse foto

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
Měl výraz člověka, který vypil pohár života a na jeho dně našel mrtvého brouka.

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“Shallow men believe in luck.”
Povrchní člověk věří ve štěstí.

Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Ray Bradbury foto

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Musíte zůstat opilí psaním, aby vás realita nemohla zničit.

Ray Bradbury kniha Zen in the Art of Writing

Zdroj: Zen in the Art of Writing

Winston S. Churchill foto

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Pro sebe jsem optimista - nezdá se, že by bylo moc zvykem být čímkoli jiným.

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

Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Henry David Thoreau foto

“Things do not change; we change.”
Věci se nemění. My se měníme.

Henry David Thoreau kniha Walden

Zdroj: Walden

Albert Einstein foto

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
Nejsrozumitelnější věcí na světě je, že je vůbec srozumitelný.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. foto

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost”
Lidé se při hledání naplnění a štěstí vydávají různými cestami. To, že nejsou na vaší cestě, neznamená, že zabloudili.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Leo Tolstoy foto

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Hrabajúc se v naší duši, často vykopeme něco, co by v ní mělo ležet nepozorovaně.

Leo Tolstoy kniha Anna Karenina

Zdroj: Anna Karenina

Amelia Earhart foto

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”
Nejtěžší je rozhodnutí jednat. Zbytek je jen o vytrvalosti. Obavy jsou papíroví tygři. Můžete udělat cokoli, pro co se rozhodnete. Můžete jednat, abyste změnili a ovládli svůj život a jeho průběh. Proces je sám o sobě odměnou.

Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American aviation pioneer and author

The Official Website of Amelia Earhart - Quotes http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/quotes.html

Herta Müller foto

“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”
Existuje nevyřčené pravidlo, že byste nikdy neměli začít plakat, pokud k tomu máte příliš mnoho důvodů.

Herta Müller kniha The Hunger Angel

Zdroj: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68

George S. Patton foto

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
Nikdy neříkej podřízeným přesně jak mají splnit úkol, ale vždy jim řekni, co mají udělat, a oni tě překvapí svou duchaplností.

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"

Sophia Loren foto

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
Sex-appeal je z padesáti procent to, co máte, a z padesáti procent to, co si lidé myslí, že máte.

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Varianta: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

George S. Patton foto

“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
Přijímejte výzvy, abyste mohli pocítit radost z vítězství.

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

As quoted in Textbook of Phacoemulsification (1988) by William F. Maloney and Lincoln Grindle, p. 79

Henry Ward Beecher foto

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”
Každý umělec ponoří štětec do své duše a namaluje do obrazu svou vlastní povahu.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

Khalil Gibran foto

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Přátelství je sladká odpovědnost, nikdy ne prospěchářství.

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

Sand and Foam (1926)

Babe Ruth foto

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”
Včerejší homerun vám dnešní zápas nevyhraje

Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player

The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
Disputed
Zdroj: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Zdroj: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth

Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
Ještě nechápete, že když se svobodný člověk neochvějně opře o své instinkty a setrvá při nich, obrovský svět se k němu přiblíží.

Ralph Waldo Emerson kniha Nature

Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Varianta: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.

George Marshall foto

“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
Když je věc hotová, je hotová. Neohlížejte se zpět. Těšte se na další cíl.

George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff

As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm

William Ellery Channing (poet) foto

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
Obtíže mají povzbudit, ne odradit. Lidský duch má růst a sílit díky konfliktům.

William Ellery Channing (poet) (1818–1901) American writer
Willa Cather foto

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Kde je velká láska, tam se vždy dějí zázraky.

Willa Cather kniha Death Comes for the Archbishop

Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Ralph Waldo Emerson citát: “The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Představivost není talentem některých lidí, ale je zdravím každého člověka.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir foto

“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”
Bolest pomine, ale krása zůstane.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor

As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
undated quotes

Chinmayananda Saraswati foto

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Úspěšný člověk je takový, který dokáže postavit pevné základy z cihel, které ostatní po něm házejí.

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
Krásný citát je diamantem na prstu duchaplného člověka a kamínkem v ruce hlupáka.

Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet

Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

Khalil Gibran foto

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”
Chcete-li pochopit srdce a mysl člověka, nedívejte se na to, čeho již dosáhl, ale na to, o co usiluje.

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

As quoted in Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment (2007) by Lisa Ford, p. 44

Tenzin Gyatso foto

“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
Soucit a tolerance nejsou známkou slabosti, ale znamením síly.

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.

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