We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Courage Quotes
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
— Aesop
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
What worries you masters you.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
— Erasmus
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
— Laozi
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
— Laozi
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox
— Laozi
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
— Voltaire
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
— Horace
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.
At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want.
— Laozi
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Cicero
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
— Sun Tzu
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.