(102 quotes found)
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.”
“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
“Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money”
“Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge”
“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.”
“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.”
“'It is destiny' phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny”
“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought”
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
