Quotes to Ponder
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” — Marcus Aurelius
“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes.
Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors.
Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal.
The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
Remain steadfast and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.” — Epictetus
“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. It always has. It always will. Don’t forget that.” — Robert Frost on his 80th birthday in 1954.
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” ― Helen Keller
“To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.” — Tom Robbins (born 1936)
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” — Thomas Edison (1847–1931)
“When you get stronger everything in the world gets easier. Change yourself and you’ve changed everything. ” — Hunter Post
“The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — St. Francis of Assisi
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Muriel Strode
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.” — Paulo Coelho
“The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy.” — William Carlos Williams
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” — Alex Haley
‘Now,’ said she. ‘I know the cause, or the chief cause, of your sickness. You have forgotten what you are.’ — Boethius
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” ― Socrates
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.” — Epictetus
“Only movers are shakirs.” — Abdal Hakim Murad
“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence…” — Sherlock Holmes in The Red Headed League
“Nothing in the realm of possibility is better than what was.” — Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” — Henry David Thoreau
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” — Albert Einstein
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” — Confucius (551- 479 BCE)
“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” — Nelson Mandela (1918–2013 CE)
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates (469–399 BCE)
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” — Socrates (469–399 BCE)
“Many fail to grasp what they have seen, and cannot judge what they have learned, although they tell themselves they know.” — Heraclitus (d 475 BCE)
“One person seeking glory doesn’t accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.” — John Maxwell
“Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will, adjust your lives, not the standards.” — Ted Koppel (born 1940)
“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.” — Honoré de Balzac
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl
“Watch your thoughts; for they become words.
Watch your words; for they become actions.
Watch your actions; for they become habits.
Watch your habits; for they become character.
Watch your character; for it will become your destiny.” — Frank Outlaw
“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.” — Epictetus
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Jung
“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton
“Leadership is not about necessarily being the loudest in the room.” — Jacinda Ardern
