Keeping track of some of my favorite quotes.

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• Albert Einstein
• The Bible
• C.S. Lewis
• Donald Knuth
• George MacDonald
• Jim Elliot
• John Woods
• Jordan Peterson
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Linus Torvalds
• Martin Luther King, Jr
• Oswald Chambers
• Robert Thompson
• Seneca the Younger
• Thomas A. Edison
• Unknown Origin
• Winston Churchill

George MacDonald

• "Here there is no room for ambition. Ambition is the desire to be above one’s neighbor; and here there is no possibility of comparison with one’s neighbor: no one knows what the white stone contains except the man who receives it... Relative worth is not only unknown—to the children of the Kingdom it is unknowable."
• "God has cared to make me for Himself," says the victor with the white stone, "And has called me that which I like best."
• "Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."
• "Low-sunk life imagines itself weary of life, but it is death, not life, it is weary of." - on Pessimism

Thomas A. Edison

• "I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it."

Albert Einstein

• "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

Oswald Chambers

• "The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him."
• "You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside."
• "The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best."
• "Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it."
• "We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours."
• "If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart."
• "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

C.S. Lewis

• "He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself…" - Transposition and Other Addresses

Jim Elliot

• "When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die."

John Woods

• "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

Kurt Vonnegut

• "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." ― Hocus Pocus

Linus Torvalds

• "In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny."

Corrie ten Boom

• "Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."
• "This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."
• "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest."
• "Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you."
• "Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here."
• "When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."

Donald Knuth

• "...premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Robert Thompson

• "When the bush burns by its own fire it quickly is consumed."
• "Do not make decisions until your passions and enthusiasms cool off. God speaks in the still, small voice."
• "Never underestimate the potential for evil of the self-willed religionist, for he believes he is doing God’s will and will break all moral codes in order to achieve his ends."

Martin Luther King, Jr

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

The Bible

• Isaiah 42:3 - "A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out."
• Luke 12:48 - "From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more."
• Proverbs 11:4 - "Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death."
• Proverbs 11:24 - "One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty."
• Proverbs 11:25 - "A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed."
• Proverbs 11:28 - "Those who trust in their riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf."
• Proverbs 11:29 - "He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart."
• Psalm 11:7 - "For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; the upright will see his face."
• Psalm 27:13-14 - "I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living."
• Psalm 147:10-11 - "His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love."

Jordan Peterson

• "It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city."

Unknown Origin

• "If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go with others."

Winston Churchill

• "Perfectionism spells paralysis."

Seneca the Younger

• "If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."