The point of the teachings is to control your own mind. Restrain your mind from greed, and you will keep your body right, your mind pure and your words faithful. Always thinking of the transiency of your life, you will be able to desist from greed and anger and will be able to avoid all evils.
—Buddhist Teaching
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
—Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato) (234–149 BCE) Roman Statesman, Orator
Topics: Silence
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
—Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) American Historian, Novelist, Film Director, Composer
In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.
—John Henry Newman (1801–90) British Catholic Clergyman, Hymn writer, Poet
Topics: Change
Greed is the root cause of all sins. Greed is the cause of all problems that one faces. Greed fuels the growth of enemies. Excessive greed destroys one’s life.
—Subhashita Manjari
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward in courage.
—Unknown
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English Mathematician, Philosopher, Logician
Topics: Change, Progress, Order
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
—Sicilian Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy-the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
—Norman Podhoretz (b.1930) American Political Activist, Columnist, Author
Topics: Imagination, Creativity, Inner-child
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