There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.
—Nathaniel Branden (American Psychotherapist)
There’s no taking trout with dry breeches.
—Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish Novelist)
When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
—Barbara Sher (American Career Coach)
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
—Sophie Swetchine (Russian Mystic, Writer)
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
—James A. Garfield (American Head of State)
Without winners, there wouldn’t even be any civilization.
—Woody Hayes (American Football Coach)
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
—Jane Porter (Scottish Novelist)
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
—William Law (English Clergyman)
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
—Stephen Vizinczey (Hungarian-Canadian Writer)
The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.
—Sri Rajneesh (Osho) (Indian Spiritual Teacher)
We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
—D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist)
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
—Keith Richards (British Musician)
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
—Horace Mann (American Educator)