(79 quotes found)
“We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.”
Sarah McLachlan
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin
“ No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.”
Barry Long
“It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare”
Mark Twain
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
“You never find yourself until you face the truth”
Pearl Bailey
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Dale Carnegie
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”