Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

The people rate strength before everything.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

The little man is still a man.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

A useless life is an early death.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

He who seizes the right moment is the right man.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?;"Roger von Oech