Sayings Proverbs & Affirmations
Cultivation of habits
Chains of habit are too weak to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
We must try to live in society and remain untouched by its pitfalls.
To do as you would be done by is the plain sure and undisputed morality and justice.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrows; it only saps today of its strength.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
One of the chief diseases from which ancient civilization died was a low view of woman
Wisdom for every day
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
Friend : One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
If a person could have half of their wishes granted they would double their troubles.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
What is true by lamplight is not always true in the sunshine.
It is not enough to have great qualities we should also have the management of them.
Without humility there can be no humanity.
Nature never deceives us it is always we who deceive ourselves.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
The way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Many who have much knowledge have no understanding.
One's only task is to realise oneself.
He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.
About success
Success or failure in Business is caused more by mental attitudes than mental by capacities.
Walter Scott.
They that wrestle with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills
Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fail.
Hatred is a cowards revenge for being intimidated.
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
Half of the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making an attempt.
The kingdom of heaven is within, waiting to be realized when we are ready.
The strongest of us upon earth is one who stands most alone.
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
Those who seldom make mistakes seldom make discoveries.
People who parade their virtues seldom lead the procession.
About Receiving
It's best to take with thankfulness and admiration from what each person has to give.
Encouragement
Turn your face towards the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
Most of our problems are test questions.
Henry Haskins
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Facts are worthless to a person if you have to keep running to somebody else for adviseon how to use them.
Irritation like friction is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back on humanity and God.
There is no such thing as incurables. There are only things for which we have found no cure.
You can tell when you are on the upside of the road, it's up grade.
If I can do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Wit is folly unless a wise man has the keeping of it.
Humour with a twist
Silence is not always golden sometimes it is yellow
Advice is like castor oil easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
The best reason for holding your chin up when in trouble is that it keeps the mouth closed.
The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.
Shakespeare
She was like a piece of barley sugar - a bit twisted and brittle but delightfully sweet.
To a mother a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
Liberty means responsibility that's why most men dread it.
A committee is a group that keep minutes and loses hours.
Why is the world which sees so near, so hard to get hold of ?
Every man sees in his relatives and especially cousins a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining and dies disappointed.
About Love
Love is not a matter of counting the years, it's making the years count.
Love covereth a multitude of sins
1 Peter 4 : 8
There is no defence against someone else's superiority except love.
If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers it shows s/he is a citizen of the world
Love you enemy really means - kill him with kindness.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each others eyes for an instant.
True generosity is accepting ingratitude.
Do you love life ? then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness.
Rousseau.
About Freedom
Nothing ever really sets human nature free but self control
It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation,
Ghandi.
We love in others what we lack in ourselves and would be everything but what we are.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Justice without power is inefficient; Power without justice is tyranny.
Pascal.
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they must pass themselves
About Belief
A thief believes everyone steals.
To give up pretensions is as blessed as a relief as to get them gratified.
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song bird in a cage.
What is a weed ? a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
A man is three people; what he is, what hew thinks he is, and what others think he is.
About Wealth
We are rich in proportion to the things that we can afford to let alone.
Merchants throughout the world have the same religion.
A smile takes a moment, but the memory of it sometimes last forever.
Education is a man's gong forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes them.
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
About Error
There is no anguish like an error of which we feel ashamed.
It takes many things to prove you are smart but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
No degree of temptation justifies any degree of sin.
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