Selected quotes - page 4
Do not be ashamed to learn in adulthood: it is better to learn late than never.
Aesop
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other. No matter how difficult it is...life is good when you are happy; but much better when others are happy because of you.
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
Seneca
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Quintilian
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
Oscar Wilde
Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious.
Herodotus
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Plautus
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca
A strong person is not the one who defeats the weak, but the one who helps the weak become strong.
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keeps you very busy doing nothing.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.
Epicurus
The water that does not move becomes stagnant, and so does the mind that is not open to change.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Plato
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
What's meant for you always arrives right on time.
God does not allow a trial unless something good comes out of it... God allows everything for our good.
Paisios of Mount Athos
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