“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”[Thales]
“Silence is a true friend that never betrays.”[Confucius]
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”[Socrates]
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim of human existence.”[Aristotle]
“A man is worth no greater than his ambitions.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”[Henry David Thoreau, Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 590]
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”[Confucius]
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”[Socrates]
“The sole becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”[Confucius]
“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”[Thales]
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”[Laozi]
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”[Socrates]
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”[Aristotle]
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”[Epicurus]
“Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”[Laozi]
“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.”[Democritus]
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”[Plato]
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”[Aristotle]
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little”[Epicurus]
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.”[Confucius]
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”[Laozi]
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.". [-Chinese general Sun Tzu, The Art of War,(NewTork: Doubleday,1988)]
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”[Socrates]
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”[Aristotle]
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”[Epicurus]
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it’s all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.”[Confucius]
“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”[Thales]
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”[Laozi]
“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”[Democritus]
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”[Plato]
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”[Aristotle]
“Not what we have But what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”[Epicurus]
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”[Confucius]
“Hope is the only thing that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”[Thales]
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”[Laozi]
“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.”[Democritus]
“An unexamined life is not work living”[Socrates]
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”[Plato]
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”[Aristotle]
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”[Epicurus]
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”[Marcus Aurelius]
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”[Confucius]
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”[Thales]
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”[Laozi]
“There is nothing permanent except change.”[Heraclitus]
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”[Democritus]
“The remedy against bad times is to be patient with them.”[Arab Proverb]
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”[Samuel Johnson: The Idler No. 74]
“No man cannot have two masters.”[Matthew 6:24]
“No two things are exactly alike.”[West Africa Proverb]
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again.”[English Proverb]
“Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.”[Proverbs 27:2]
“More than one war has been caused by a single word.”[Arab Proverb]
“Do not tear down the east wall to repair the west.”[Chinese Proverb]
“The arrow which leaves the bow cannot come back.”[Persian Proverb]
“It is through disobedience that progress has been made.”[Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism]
“The golden age was never the present age.”[Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) Gnomologia]
“Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”[Samuel Johnson: in Boswell’s Life, April 18, 1775]
“That which blossoms must also decay.”[India Proverb]
“The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.”[Chinese Proverb]
“The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.”[French Proverb]
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his speech.”[Chinese Proverb]
“Good thoughts are half of health.”[Yugoslav Proverb]
“Fear added wings to his feet.”[Vergil:Aeneid VIII]
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”[Samuel Johnson: Rasselas XLI]
“If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”[Mark 3:25]
“He who falls into the sea will cling even to a snake.”[Turkish Proverb]
“Talent is born is silence but character is born in the struggle of life.”[German Proverb]
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”[Chinese Proverb]
“What you are planning to do tomorrow, do today; what you are going to do today do right now.”[India Proverb]
“Our life is frittered away by detail. . . Simplify, simplify, simplify.”[Thoreau: Walden II]
“That man is admired above all men, who is not influenced by money.”[Cicero: De officiis II.xi.]
“If you do not want another to tell your secrets, you must not tell them yourself.”[Seneca: Phaedra]
“He who does not know how to serve cannot know how to command.”[Yugoslav Proverb]
“On the day of victory no one is tired.”[Arab Proverb]
“The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long in learning”[Seneca: Troades 633]
“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. ” [Hebrews 12:11]
“The good seaman can be recognized when the storm comes”[Greek Proverb]
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”[Proverbs 22:6]
“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain”[Aristotle: Politics V.v.]
“That best portion of a good man’s life - His little nameless, undeterred, acts Of kindness and of love.”[Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey]
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”[Matthew 6:34]
“Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great.”[Thomas Fuller (1654-1734): Gnomologia]
“Ten men, ten minds.”[Japanese Proverb]
“Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes.”[Oscar Wilde]
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”[Socrates: in Plato’s Phaedrus]
“Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest.”[Book of Common Prayer, “Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent”]
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” [Mark Twain: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar]
“I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.” [Montaigne: Of Repentance]
“I know how to listen when clever men are talking. That is the secret of what you call my influence.” [Sudermann: Es Lebe das Leben I.iv (trans. Edith Wharton)]
“For though we sleep or wake, or roam or ride, Ay fleets the time, it will no man abide” [Chaucer: The Clerk’s Tale]
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” [Proverbs 16:32]
“Cold rice and cold tea are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.” Japanese Proverb
“Every man who knows how to read has it in him power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.” [Aldous HUXLEY (b. England, Jul. 26, 1894-Nov. 22, 1963)]
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