Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Leadership Quotes
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Cicero
Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
— Cicero
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
— Cicero
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
— Laozi
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
— Laozi
It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Imagination rules the world.
— Napoleon
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
— Napoleon
One fails forward toward success.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue.
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.
Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
— Cicero
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
As you think, so shall you become.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.