Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
—Brian Tracy (American Author)
The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures.
—Mother Teresa (Albanian Catholic Humanitarian)
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
—Baltasar Gracian
Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
—Alfred North Whitehead (English Mathematician)
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)
A merry heart does good like medicine.
—Common Proverb
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
—Buckminster Fuller (American Inventor, Philosopher)
It’s the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
—Oliver Goldsmith (Irish Author)