English quotes

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“We must become the change we want to see.”

“Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.”

“The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”

“Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.”

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”

“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”

“You won't skid if you stay in a rut.”

“You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”

“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.”

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”

“The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.”

“By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.”

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

“Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.”

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”

“Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.”

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.”

“Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.”

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

“To follow, without halt, one aim: There is the secret of success.”

“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

“I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.”

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

“With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.”

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

“A jug fills drop by drop.”

“No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.”

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”

“Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.”

“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”

“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”

“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.”

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”

“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”

“I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.”

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“I can, therefore I am.”

“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”

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

“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.”

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.”

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”

“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

“It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”

“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”

“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”

“You give before you get.”

“I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.”