Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
“And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”
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“You become what you give your attention to.”
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“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.”
29
“Devote the rest of your life to making progress.”
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“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
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“Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?”
26
“Confine yourself to the present.”
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“One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary.”
11
“Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.”
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
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“Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.”
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“Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things.”
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“The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.”
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“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
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“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
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“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men, too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”
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“Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.”
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“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, ‘This is misfortune,’ but, ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’”
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“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
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“Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on those who know how to bear them.”
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“A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”
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“As fire tests gold, so misfortunate tests brave men.”
10
“The problem creates the solution. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
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“Be indifferent to what makes no difference.”
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“Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”
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“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way.”
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“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
24
“Better to do a little well than a great deal badly.”
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“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
12
“A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason and against nature.”
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“If a friend feels upset by you, be the first to try to put things right.”
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.”
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“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
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“I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.”
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“Before a crowd, the ignorant are more persuasive than the educated.”
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“The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think or do. Only what you do.”
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“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”
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“There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.”
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“He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.”
11
“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing.”
12
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today.”
12
“To move the world, we must first move ourselves.”
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“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”
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“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”
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“All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.”
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“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
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“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
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“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
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