Selected quotes - page 7
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
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Friedrich Schiller
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
In school, we first learn the lessons and then take the test. In life, it's the opposite – first comes the test, and then we learn the lesson.
Three golden rules of language: - Think about what you say. - Don't say what you don't mean. - Don't say everything you think.
One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors.
Antisthenes
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
André Gide
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Confucius
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
A precious gift from God is every day that we are alive.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Anger is a brief madness.
Horace
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Abba Anthony said, "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.'"
Anthony the Great
Your time on this earth is limited, don't live someone else's life, live by your vision.
Steve Jobs
Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.
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
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Work on purifying your thoughts. If you have no bad thoughts, there will be no bad deeds.
Confucius
Be careful who you trust and tell your problems to. Not everyone who smiles at you is your friend...
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