Publilius Syrus
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
They can because they think they can.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Do or do not, there is no try.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
My heart is ever at your service.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Come, let us make love deathless.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
What a dump.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Attica ! Attica !
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Hard work pays off.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
To infinity and beyond !
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.