Wisdom Quotes, page 112

“You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck.”

“Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.”

“The hypocrite looks for faults. The believer looks for excuses.”

“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”

“A man of bad character punishes his own soul.”

“Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.”

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”

“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.”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”

“Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.”

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”

“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.”

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I don't want to sound like Confucius, but under the sky, under the heaven, man, there is but one family. It just so happens, man, that people are different.”

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.”

“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”