Quotes

1. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

2. Happiness depends upon ourselves.

3. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

4. Man is by nature a political animal.

5. Nature does nothing in vain.

6. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

7. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

8. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

9. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

10. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

11. Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.

12. Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

13. Love, and do what you will.

14. Patience is the companion of wisdom.

15. The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

16. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

17. Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

18. All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

19. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

20. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

21. All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

22. Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

23. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

24. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

25. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

26. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

27. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

28. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

29. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

30. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

31. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

32. Respect yourself and others will respect you.

33. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

34. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

35. To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.

36. When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

37. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

38. Man shall not live by bread alone.

39. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

40. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

41. Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

42. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

43. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

44. If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

45. It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

46. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

47. No man is free who is not master of himself.

48. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

49. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

50. Become who you are.

51. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

52. The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

53. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

54. There are no facts, only interpretations.

55. Beauty will save the world.

56. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

57. The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

58. The soul is healed by being with children.

59. To live without hope is to cease to live.

60. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

61. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

62. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

63. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

64. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

65. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

66. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

67. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

68. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

69. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

70. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

71. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

72. Things do not change; we change.

73. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

74. Character is destiny.

75. Much learning does not teach understanding.

76. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

77. The only constant is change.

78. Time is a game played beautifully by children.

79. Know thyself.

80. God is love.

81. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

82. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

83. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

84. He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

85. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

86. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

87. Silence is a source of great strength.

88. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

89. The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself.

90. To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

91. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

92. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

93. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

94. If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

95. If you want to be happy, be.

96. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

97. Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

98. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

99. Learning never exhausts the mind.

100. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

101. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

102. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.

103. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

104. If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

105. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

106. Look well into yourself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if you will always look.

107. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

108. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

109. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

110. When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

111. You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

112. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

113. What does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

114. God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

115. He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

116. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

117. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

118. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

119. The beginning is the most important part of the work.

120. The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

121. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

122. Be still, and know that I am God.

123. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

124. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

125. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

126. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

127. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

128. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

129. Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

130. I think, therefore I am.

131. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

132. As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

133. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

134. He who is brave is free.

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

136. It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

137. It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

138. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

139. No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

140. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

141. While we wait for life, life passes.

142. I know that I know nothing.

143. The unexamined life is not worth living.

144. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

145. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

146. Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

147. It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

148. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

149. Once you label me you negate me.

150. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

151. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

152. The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

153. The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

154. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

155. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

156. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

157. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

158. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

159. There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

160. To love another person is to see the face of God.