Iurii Says: Phrases I live by

A handful of lines I keep coming back to.

Everyone fancies himself a strategist, watching the battle from the sidelines.

— Shota Rustaveli"The Knight in the Panther's Skin" (12th century)

I am not rich enough to buy cheap things.

— Attributed to Baron RothschildAlso credited to couturier Madeleine Vionnet — origin disputed.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his moccasins.

— After Mary T. Lathrap"Judge Softly" (1895)Not a verbatim line — distilled from across the poem; often mistaken for a Native American proverb.

Don't go with the flow. Don't go against the flow. Go where you need to go.

A terrible end is better than endless terror.

— Attributed to Ferdinand von SchillGerman proverb ("Lieber ein Ende mit Schrecken als ein Schrecken ohne Ende") — popularized by Schill's 1809 call to arms; origin disputed.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.

— Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks)"A League of Their Own" (1992)

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

— John A. Shedd"Salt from My Attic" (1928)

To score a perfect zero in a test, you have to know every right answer.

If something can be measured, it can be improved.

Often credited to Peter Drucker ("what gets measured gets managed") — the attribution is disputed; the nearest documented source is Lord Kelvin (1883).

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