● He who receives a benefit
with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
● That man lives badly who does not know
how to die well.
● Might makes right.
● He who profits by crime commits it.
● Worse than war is the fear of war.
● Everywhere is nowhere. When a
person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many
acquaintances, but no friends.
● All cruelty springs from weakness.
● It is not the man who has too little, but the man who
craves more, that is poor.
● Hope not without despair, despair not
without hope.
● Men do not care how nobly they live,
but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live
nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
● It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
● All art is but imitation of nature.
● Fire is the test of gold;
adversity, of strong men.
● Time discovers truth.
● I do not distinguish by the eye,
but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
- Seneca, or Seneca the Younger ([c. 4 BC - 65 AD], a Roman
philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist.)
● Virtue debases itself in justifying
itself.
● Man is free at the instant he wants to
be.
● What we find in books is like the
fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbor's, we kindle it at
home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
- Voltaire (is the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, a French
writer and philosopher.)
● In a day when you don't come across
any problems - you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.
● Arise, Awake and Stop not till the Goal
is Reached.
- Swami Vivekananda
● Delay is the best remedy for anger
● It is not because things are difficult that we do
not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
● This is the law of benefits between
men; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other
ought never to forget what he has received.
● Be silent as to services you have
rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
● He who spares the wicked injures the
good.
● It is a great thing to know the
season for speech and the season for silence.
● Speech is the mirror of the mind.
● Most powerful is he who has himself in
his own power.
● The first step towards amendment is the
recognition of error.
● The mind is slow to unlearn what it
learnt early.
● We most often go astray on a well
trodden and much frequented road.
● Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
● To be feared is to fear: no one has
been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of
mind.
● The path of precept is long, that
of example short and effectual.
● The most onerous slavery is to be a
slave to oneself.
- Seneca the Elder (c. 54 BC - c. 39 AD), a
Roman rhetorician and writer.
● Never mind failures; they are quite
natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What
would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it
were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life?
Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow
tell a lie, but it is only a cow -- never a man. So never mind
these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a
thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the
attempt once more.
-
Swami Vivekananda
● "In retrospect these years form not only the
least agreeable, but the only barren and unhappy period of my
life.
I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I
have been happier every year since I became a man. But this
interlude of school makes a sombre grey patch upon the chart of
my journey. It was an unending spell of worries that did
not then seem petty, of toil uncheered by fruitation; a time of
discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony. . ."
- Winston Churchill [Quoted from :
Roving Commission: My
Early Life (1930) ]
● I believe it is an established maxim in
morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether
it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental
truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
- Abraham Lincoln
● A musician must make music, an artist must
paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace
with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
- Abraham Maslow.
● We should not be upset that others hide
the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.
- François de La Rochefoucauld
● True charity occurs only when there are no
notions of giving, giver, or gift.
- Gautama Buddha
● Life is like a taxi. The meter
just keeps ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just
standing still.
- Lou Erickso
● Preach not because you have to
say something, but because you have something to say.
- Richard Whatley
● Crises and deadlocks, when they occur,
have at least this advantage that they force us to think.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
● The way to develop the best in a man is
by appreciation and encouragement.
- Charles Schwab
● Nothing can bring you peace but
yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
● Death levels the high and the low
alike.
- Zarathushtra
● The secret of being a bore is to tell
everything.
- Voltaire
● Essence of life is love and its
foundation is good behavior.
- Confucius
● To a brave man, good and bad luck are
like his right and left hands. He uses them both.
- St. Catherine of Siena
● It is better to be envied than to be
pitied.
- Herodotus
● You cannot help men earnestly by doing
for them what they could do for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
● It is our relation to circumstances
that determine their influence over us. The same wind that
carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
- Bovee
● To be irritated by criticism is to
acknowledge it was deserved.
- Tactius
● A crust eaten in peace is better than a
banquet partaken in anxiety.
- Aesop (or Æsop) [from his fable,The
Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. ]
● Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation.
You do not find it among gross people.
- Samuel Johnson
● At the working man's house, hunger looks in,
but dares not enter.
- Benjamin Franklin
● Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small
flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- Jonathan Swift
● Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away
with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity
need be feared.
- Sun Tzu
● I consider it important, indeed urgently
necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their
own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their
influence in the political field.
- Albert Einstein
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