- Own your life, or someone will own it for you.
- Never compare your weaknesses to other people's strengths.
- Be fearless in your pursuit of what sets your heart on fire.
- Laughter is the best medicine
for stress. Laugh at yourself often.
- Forgiving yourself is far more
important than getting others to forgive you.
- Never run after a man or a bus. There is always another one
coming behind.
- Crying doesn’t indicate that you’re
weak. It doesn’t always solve your problems either.
- Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world,
no matter what you look like.
- You never know how strong you really
are until being strong is the only choice you have.
- When you stop chasing the wrong
things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
- If you awake every morning with the
thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, you’ll often
find that you’re right.
- Human intellect is nature’s
attempt at self-criticism.
- Individuals and nations
die; but their children, i.e. ideas, never die.
- Self-Control in individuals
builds families; in communities, it builds empires.
- Justice is an inestimable
treasure; but we must guard it against the thief of mercy.
- Government, whatever its
form, is one of the determining forces of a people’s character
- To explain the deepest
truths of life in the form of homely parables requires extraordinary
genius.
- If ethics is to be
an experimental science like other sciences, it must be based on the
revelations of human experience.
- Philosophy is the logic of right,
history the logic of might. The
cannons of this later logic appear to be more sound than those of her
sister logic.
- Belief is a great power. When
I see that a proposition of mine is believed by another mind, my own
conviction of its truth is thereby immensely increased.
- Our Soul discovers itself
when we come into contact with a great mind. It is not until I had
realised the Infinitude of Goethe’s imagination that I discovered the
narrow breadth of my own.
- You fail in
your enterprise, and now you wish to leave your home and try your
luck in other climes. It is not because your ambition has received a fresh
spur from your failure; but chiefly because you wish to hide your face
from those who have witnessed your failure
- If you risk nothing, you
risk everything.
- Never
compare your weaknesses to other people's strengths.
- Don’t pray when it rains if you
don’t pray when the sun shines.
- Victory introduces you to
the world, but defeat introduces the world to you.
- Don't waste your time with explanation, people only hear
what they want to hear.
- Everyone thinks of changing the
world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.
- What lies before us and behind us are tiny matters when
compared to what lies within us.
- Don't give others the power
to control your emotion. Those are only yours and it is only for you to
manipulate.
- If you don't do stupid things while you are young, you will
have nothing to smile about when you are old.
- Don't rest after your first victory, because if you fail
the second time, more lips will be waiting to say that your first victory was
just luck.
- The person that you will spend most time with in your life
is yourself, so better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.
