Selected quotes - page 8
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Aristotle
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
Aristotle
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
Marcus Aurelius
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Plutarch
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
William Shakespeare
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
John Chrysostom
What I see around the world would drive me insane if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word.
Paisios of Mount Athos
When you lie, you lie to God; when you steal, you steal from God; when you have hatred for someone, you have hatred for God; when you don't honor your parents, you don't honor God; when you are jealous, you are jealous of God; when you begrudge alms to the poor, you begrudge recompense to God; when you plot evil, you plot it against God; when you work evil, you work evil against God.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles
Archery teaches us how to seek the truth. When the shooter misses, he does not blame others, but looks for the fault in himself.
Confucius
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
Carl Jung
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
Steve Jobs
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