2098 Quotations Found

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Author: Lao Tzu | Subjects: Power, Wisdom

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subject: Wisdom

The great essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Author: Joseph Addison | Subject: Happiness

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo | Subjects: Perception | Observation, Psychology | Behavior, Travel

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation

We live at a moment when many people feel as guilty for not having sex as their ancestors felt for having it. The bedroom has become a battlefield – a place we go to prove ourselves, a place we go (frequently in full combat gear) to demonstrate our fitness and liberation.

Author: Cristina Nehring | Subject: Culture

If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation—our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh | Subject: Life & Society

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Author: Lou Holtz | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Attitude, Motivation, Personal Improvement

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Author: Irving Berlin | Subjects: Attitude, Life & Society

If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom

Humble people don’t think less of themselves – they just think more of other people.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Character, Psychology | Behavior

The opposite of a truth is another profound truth.

Author: Niels Bohr | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Thought | Inquiry

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “thank you,” it will be enough.

Author: Meister Eckhart | Subjects: Gratitude, Religion, Wisdom

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Religion

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

Author: Caskie Stinnett | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Author: Abraham Lincoln | Subjects: Character, Power

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Author: Gelett Burgess | Subjects: Attitude, Life & Society

First principle of Systems Thinking: When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

Author: Peter Senge | Subjects: Culture, Psychology | Behavior

Diplomacy can be described as the art of being stubborn, arbitrary, and unreasonable without arousing emotional responses.

Author: Bruce D. Henderson | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

Manners are morals in little things.

Author: William P. Montague | Subject: Ethics | Integrity | Morality