God ever works with those who work with will.
Aeschylus
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of
the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more
intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better
worth knowing.
Philip Gilbert Hamilton
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to
myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no
such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
James Freeman Clarke
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished
by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato
Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what
is best in us.
Hamerton
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of
that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and
dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never
into folly.
Marquise du Deffand
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
A. Bronson Alcott
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain
elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be
yours.
Swedish Proverb
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult
lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to
reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own
opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Sir William Temple
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of
retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
You must look into other people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and
he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil
A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s
ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
The secret of many a man’s success in the world resides in his insight
into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them.
J. G. Holland
To rejoice in another’s prosperity, is to give content to your own lot:
to mitigate another’s grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Thomas Edwards
Hear the meaning within the word.
William Shakespeare
Charity, good behavior, amiable speech, unselfishness — these by the
chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity.
Burmese Proverb
Kind words are the music of the world.
F. W. Faber
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our
associates.
Denis Diderot
Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
Doris M. Smith
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
Look to be treated by others
as you have treated others.
Publius Syrus
Success in life, in anything,
depends upon the number of persons
that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas Carlyle
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It
may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor
half of the evil they say of others.
J. Petit Senn
The more you say, the less people remember.
François Fénelon
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Thackeray
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
Thomas Campbell
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings.
It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George Eliot
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
Learn to regard the souls around you as parts of some grand
instrument. It is for each of us to know the keys and stops, that we
may draw forth the harmonies that He sleeping in the silent octaves.
Anonymous
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie,
laugh at it.
Epictetus
In many things it is not well to say, “Know thyself”; it is better to say,
“Know others.”
Menander
The less people speak of their greatness,
the more we think of it.
Lord Bacon
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly
answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of
some of the best requisites of man.
Johann Casper Lavater
Men are more mindful of wrongs than of benefits.
Proverb
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only
our silence; which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does
to tolerate them.
J. Petit Senn
Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults.
Chinese Proverb
Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is
leaping.
Thomas Hood
I failed my way to success.
Thomas Edison
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare