Inspirational Quotations #258

Character is higher than intellect…
A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many run about after happiness like an absent-minded man
hunting for his hat, while it is in his hand or on his head.
* James Sharp

Our lives are measured not by gain but giving
* Raistlin Majere

Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
* Danish Proverb

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
* William Durant

No matter how good you are,
there’s a lot of luck involved.
* Reggie Miller

When we talk about understanding,
surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely,
the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears,
when you give your whole attention to it.
* Jiddu Krishnamurti

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
* Washington Irving

A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas:
there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life.
The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are
from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.
* Hung Tzu-ch’eng

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard,
if we do not strive as well as pray.
* Aesop

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