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Some of the most Inspiring quotes
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"All
that we are is the result of what we have thought"
"None
are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
"Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people"
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Plato |
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"You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose sight of the shore"
"Shoot for the Moon…even if you miss,
you’ll land among the Stars"
"We do not learn, and what we
call learning is only a process of recollection"
"The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart"
"My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness"
"When the tyrant has disposed of
foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from
them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people
may require a leader"
"He who would like
to have something he never had, will have to do something well that he hasn't
done yet"
"Carpe Diem – Seize the Day"
"The whole is more than the sum of
its parts"
"If particulars are to have meaning,
there must be universals"
"Do
today what others will not, so that you may do tomorrow what others can not"
"Live
your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs"
"If
you wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, you shall never
begin"
"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the
amount of love that is put into them that matters"
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid
of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light" |
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Buddha |
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"You miss 100% of
the shots you don't take"
"Forget about
all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good
reason why it will"
"Some
men see things as they are and say 'why'? I dream things that never were and say
'why not'?"
"In the end,
what we regret most are the chances we never took"
"To acquire
knowledge, one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe"
"Force without
wisdom falls of its own weight"
"Dignity does not consist in
possessing honors, but in deserving them"
"The greatest virtues are those
which are most useful to other persons"
"The
energy of the mind is the essence of life"
"Spend some time alone
every day"
"In a democracy the poor will
have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of
the majority is supreme"
"If you want others to be
happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion"
"Remember that not getting what
you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck"
"The secret of health for both
mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or
anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly"
"There
is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain
and my heart are my temples, my philosophy is kindness"
"Music
is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight
to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything"
"Good
people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad
people will find a way around the laws" |
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Socrates |
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"Any
man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another"
"He who commits injustice is
ever made more wretched than he who suffers it"
"How can you prove whether at
this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are
awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
"I have hardly ever known a
mathematician who was capable of reasoning"
"To enjoy good health, to
bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first
discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find
the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him"
"We
ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can, and to fly away is
to become like God, as far as this is possible, and to become like God is to
become holy, just, and wise"
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"Where
ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace" "Ignorance,
the root and stem of all evil"
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great
anxiety" "Philosophy begins in wonder" "Philosophy
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Aristotle |
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"Wisdom
alone is the science of other sciences"
"Music is the movement of sound
to reach the soul for the education of its virtue"
"The first and greatest victory is
to conquer yourself, to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful
and vile"
"This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector"
"One of the penalties for
refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your
inferiors"
"Wise men speak because they have
something to say, Fools because they have to say something"
"An honest man is always a
child"
"True wisdom comes to each
of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us"
"Hatred
does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is
an unalterable law"
"Worthless people live only to eat
and drink, people of worth eat and drink only to live"
"Thousands of candles can be
lit from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared"
Mahatma Gandhi
"Seven Blunders of the World"
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
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Mahatma Ghandi |
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