Quote Flashcards
Victory belongs to the most persevering
Napoleon Bonarpate. French statesman.
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell
Aldous Huxley. English writer and philosopher
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him
John Viscount Moley
The greatest jihad (struggle/striving) is to battle your own soul, to fight the evil within yourself.
Prophet Muhammad (saw)
No two things have been combined better than knowledge andpatientce.
Prophet Muhammad (saw)
Seek knowledge from cradle to the grave
Prophet Muhammad (saw)
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action
Goethe
Without haste but without rest
Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it
Goethe
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the the hardest thing in the world is to act according to your thinking
Goethe
Dream no small dream for they have no power to move the hearts of men
Goethe
The coward only threatens when he’s safe
Goethe
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth
Marcus Aurelius
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau. American essayist, poet, and philosopher.
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”
Corazon Aquino
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry Van Dyke
“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.”
C. Joybell
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. American Jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of America
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Steven Covey
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Albert Einstein