Robert Greene Quotes

Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Production Serious Thinking Work
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Bad Believe Blessing Fact Myself Reason
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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Blame People Try World
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Happiness Right Talk Yourself
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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Creativity Dead Energy Fast Future Hate Job Life Myself Thinking Worst

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