Selected quotes - page 9

If you associate with chickens, you will learn to cluck. If you associate with eagles, you will learn to fly. View quote
God did not promise that it would be easy. He promised that He would be with us. View quote
When a wise person gets angry, he sits down and remains silent to calm his heart, so that anger does not take over him-allowing him to remain the master of himself. View quote
Nectarios of Aegina
To have beautiful lips, speak only kind words. To have beautiful eyes, seek only the good in people. To have a slender figure, share food with the hungry. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the hairstyle she has. A woman's beauty should be seen in her eyes, the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. A woman's true beauty is reflected in her soul. A woman's beauty is evident in her care and love. A woman's beauty grows as the years go by... View quote
We must end war before war ends us. View quote
H. G. Wells
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. View quote
Sophocles
Education is the best provision for old age. View quote
Aristotle
The world does not need our ponderings, opinions, and judgments. It is perishing because of the lack of love. View quote
Man asked God: "Give me everything to enjoy life." God replied: "I have given you life to enjoy everything." View quote
Happiness does not come from the place you go to, but from the state you create. View quote
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford)
A home without books is a body without soul. View quote
Cicero
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. View quote
Aesop
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. View quote
George Sand
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. View quote
Mark Twain
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. View quote
Mark Twain
The most important thing in life is to always do good. If you can't do great deeds for people, at least try to do something small. View quote
Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky)
To help another person, you do not necessarily have to be strong and rich, it is enough to be good. View quote
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
It doesn't matter whether a person is rich or not... It doesn't matter whether a person is beautiful or not... The only thing that matters is – are they truly human or not! View quote
Conscience is a strange thing. It torments not the one it should, but the one who has it. View quote
Language is the dress of thought. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. View quote
George Orwell
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. View quote
Seneca