It is always the secure who are humble.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Topics: Humility
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Novelist, Aviator
Topics: Fear, One liners, Desire, Desires
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship, Family
My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, “God is, was and ever shall be.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Topics: Faith, Challenges
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
Topics: Experience
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) British Baptist Preacher, Theologian, Hymn writer
Topics: Change
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Topics: Confidence, Assurance
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Topics: Grace
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Topics: Failures, Mistakes, Failure
He who moves not forward goes backward.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Topics: Goals
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
—Earl of Chesterfield
Topics: Laughter
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Topics: Values
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Poet, Short Story Writer, Screenwriter, Socialist
Topics: People
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