“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
Socrates
Category: Quotes to Consider
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Quote to Consider: Always Learning
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Quote to Consider: Aspirations as Inspiration
“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”Louisa May Alcott
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Quote to Consider: To What End?
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”Henry David Thoreau
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Quote to Consider: Waiting for the Applause
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Quote to Consider: Integrity Tell All
“The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.”Ashley Montagu
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Quote to Consider: The Hubris of Government
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”Thomas Jefferson
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Quote to Consider: Churchill on Appeasement
“Appeasement is throwing someone else to the crocodiles in the hopes of being eaten last.”Winston Churchill
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Quote to Consider: Safe, But At What Cost?
Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.Kenneth S. Davis
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Quote to Consider: Looking for a Virtue to Develop?
“Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can’t practice any other virtue with consistency.”Maya Angelou
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Quote to Consider: The Adventure is You
“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world—making the most of one’s best.”Harry Emerson Fosdick