We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.
Albert Einstein
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
They understand but little who understands only what can be explained.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert Hubbard
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
Socrates
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle
He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha
There is only one proof of ability - action.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Philip Chesterfield
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
Edgar Watson Howe
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha
Nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
Johnathan Swift
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave Flaubert
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
Real is what can be measured.
Max Planck
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
William Somerset Maugham
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man`s worth has its season, like fruit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus
The environment is everything that isn`t me.
Albert Einstein
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Jules Henri Poincare
As for me, I know that I know nothing, but others know still less.
Socrates
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much impossible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
Common sense is genius dressed in his working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine de Rivarol
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
William Somerset Maugham
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Better late than never.
Titus Livius
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It`s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It`s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Confucius
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Paul Valery
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Blaise Pascal
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean Paul Sartre
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher`s stone.
Benjamin Franklin
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
Maybe this world is another planet`s hell.
Aldous Huxley
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
The secret of man`s being is not only to live, but to have something to live for.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.
Bertrand Russell
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Jean Paul Sartre
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. I believe in the latter.
Albert Einstein
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha
We can not stop wishing our wishes.
Arthur Schopenhauer