Inspirational Quotes

Sayings Proverbs and 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

 

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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.

 

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