We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, and to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.Never utter these words: ‘I do not know this, therefore it is false.’ One must study to know know to understand understand to judge.Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.Marriage is when a man and woman become as one the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare.Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out it’s the pebble in your shoe.But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman.I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubts not he knows all things but his own ignorance. True wisdom is less presuming than folly.When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know…Do justly.Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
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One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it.Over the years, I have collected quotes related to character, life, and education.
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