Selected quotes - page 5

When you are going through difficulty and wonder where God is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during the test. (Keanu Reeves)
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. View quote
Socrates
A person who creates habits of hard work in their children provides for them much better than by leaving them an inheritance. View quote
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. View quote
Plutarch
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. View quote
Winston Churchill
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. View quote
Mark Twain
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. View quote
Plato
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. View quote
Voltaire
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. (Confucius)
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Look forward - with hope, back - with gratitude, up - with prayer, down - with repentance, inward - with attention. And around - with love. View quote
No one crosses our path by accident. And we don't go into someone's life for no reason. View quote
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is the tree is the real thing. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. View quote
Pythagoras
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. View quote
Alvin Toffler
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.'" View quote
Anthony the Great
And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. (Haruki Murakami)
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. View quote
Plato
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. View quote
Carl Jung
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. View quote
Epicurus
Men exist for the sake of one another. View quote
Marcus Aurelius