(Culturcidal will be getting a little “listier” in December because there are a few end-of-year lists that I like to release. So, it seemed like a good time to drop an article like this. Many hours of work went into it, so enjoy!)

A good quote can condense a book's worth of wisdom into a profound sentence or two. A good quote will teach you more about life, happiness, economics, politics, and culture than a thousand hours of watching TV, TikTok, or scrolling through Twitter. A good quote can guide you through the worst of times or point you in the right direction when you're lost. Good quotes matter and these are the 50 that have had the biggest impact on my thinking. Turn these quotes over in your mind. Deeply consider them from every angle. Where your mind says, "that can't be right," allow them to challenge your thinking. Allow these quotes can help lead you towards a happier and more successful life.

1) "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

2) "If you can't afford it, you don't deserve it." - Anonymous

3) "It's likely that whatever challenges you have faced in your life currently could have been avoided but some better decisions upstream." - Anonymous

4) "Find something you love to do so much that you'd do it for free and find a way to make it into a career." - Anonymous

5) "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else." -Henry Ward Beecher

6) "Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good." - Buddha

7) 'People like people who help them like themselves." - Dale Carnegie

8) "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." - Francis Chan

9) "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." - Stephen Covey

10) "I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." -- The unproven last words of Leonardo da Vinci

11) "What gets measured, gets managed." - Peter Drucker

12) "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

13) "There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip." -- English Proverb

14) "If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked." - Epictetus

15) "That's precisely the question everyone should be asking - why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now…" - Tim Ferriss

16) "He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass." - Edgar R. Fiedler

17) "The last of human freedoms - the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances." - Viktor E. Frankl

18) "Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough." - Arthur Freed

19) "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." - Galatians 6:7

20) "The will to win is meaningless without the will to prepare!" - Joe Gibbs

21) "Everybody wants a quick fix. You may get results, but they won't be permanent. The permanent results come from you having to suffer." - David Goggins

22) "Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life." - Jerzy Gregorek

23) "The life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make." - Darren Hardy

24) "Evolution is the DNA of a continued existence. Those who don't evolve become the subject of a 'Whatever Happened To' story." -- Paul Heyman

25) "We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." - Eric Hoffer