Selected quotes - page 14

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. (Thomas Aquinas)
The highest of distinctions is service to others. View quote
George VI of the United Kingdom
Words are like keys. If chosen correctly, they can open any soul and close any mouth. View quote
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. View quote
Aristotle
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb! View quote
Robert Browning
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. View quote
Epictetus
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. View quote
Seneca
Watch your thoughts, they become words. View quote
Laozi
It's so easy to be kind - you just need to imagine yourself in the other person's place before you start judging him. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Compassion is sorrow for someone else's misfortune; envy is sorrow for someone else's happiness. View quote
Plutarch
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. View quote
Laozi
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. View quote
Alain Delon
Rudeness is an imitation of strength by weak-willed people. View quote
A wise old woman used to say: - Wish health and happiness to the one who insults you, and God will know what to give them. View quote
Silence does not always mean a poor vocabulary. Quite often, it signifies rich experience... View quote
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. View quote
Niels Bohr
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. View quote
Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I am. (René Descartes)
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. View quote
George Washington
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. View quote
Marcus Aurelius