Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
Friendship Quotes
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
I owe my solitude to other people.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
Nothing will work unless you do.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
— Jim Rohn
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
— Plato
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
— Plautus
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Be as you wish to seem.
— Socrates
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Where there is love there is life.
I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
— Ovid
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There is nothing permanent except change.
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
— Laozi
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
To have much learning and skill, to be well-trained in discipline, and good in speech — this is the highest blessing.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
— Rumi
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.