Quotes Flashcards
“Good lives
are made so by discipline.” - Sophocles
“It all comes
down to the big D : D for discipline.” - Mrs. Asselta
“More things are
wrought by prayer than this world will ever know.” - St. Thomas
“I’ve never known a man
worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for, needs the discipline.” - Vince Lombardi
“Know
thyself.” - Sophocles
“Knowledge makes
a bloody entry.” - St. Thomas Aquinas
“The educated differ
from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” - Aristotle
“Nothing great was
ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Speak not for the
fool’s hearing, he will despise the wisdom of your words.” - Proverbs
“Beauty is
truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” - John Keats
“Character can not
be developed in ease in quiet, only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Hellen Keller
“If you tell
the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” - Mark Twain
“Careful of your
enemies, they point out your faults.”
“Only the truly
disciplined is free.”
“Preach the
gospel, use words if necessary.” - St. Thomas
“Criticize a concited
man and he will hate you for it. Criticize a wize man and he will respect you for it.” - Proverbs
“Gratitude is not only
the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all virtues.” - Cicero
“Art imitates
life.” - Aristotle
“We are what
we repeatedly do, excellence then is a habit.”
“One of the marvels of
personality is it’s resistance to prediction. One man’s paralysing trauma is another man’s invitation to take control of his life. One woman’s grounds for insanity is another woman’s goad to a dramatic shaping of the self.” - Roselyn Brown
“The way of the sluggard
is hemmed with thorns, the path of the diligent is a highway.” - Proverbs
“A man is three
persons : the person he thinks he is, the person others think he is, and the person God knows he is.” - Samuel Johnson
“If it is to
be it is up to me.”
“If you lack
confidence, pretend and it will come.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no greater courage
than to bear defeat without giving up.”
“There is no success
without hardship.” - Sophocles
“This thing we call
failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
“What’s difficult,
we do it once. What’s impossible, we take longer.” - Herman Wolk
“Life ends,
art is forever.” - Keats
“Experience the most
brutal of teachers, but you learn … do you learn?” - C. S. Lewis
“Seek not to
understand that you may believe, but seek to believe that you may understand.” - St. Augustine
“I didn’t do the
best possible job, but I did the best that I could do, and therefore I couldn’t have done any better.” - Ronald Reagen
“Procrastination is
the thief of time.” - Martin Luther King
“I must be cruel
only to be kind.” - William Shakespeare
“A person is as big
as the thing that makes him angry.” - Winston Churchhill
“Do the best
you can, and pray that God will give you the strength to do what you cannot.” - St. Augustine
“The eyes are
the windows of the soul.” - John Dunn
“Things are never
so bad that there isn’t a solution or the solution is accepting the problem.” - Churchhill
“Do the thing you
fear and death of fear is certain.” - Emerson
“Life is not easy.
It calls for Spartan endurance.” - Tennessee Williams
“If you think you
can’t, you won’t.” - James Allen
“Whether you think
you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” - Henry Ford
“Men are masters
of their own fate.” - Shakespeare
“We do what we have
to do so we can do what we want to do.”
“Be wary then,
best safety lies in fear.”
“The aparell
‘oft proclaims the man.”
“When the blood burns,
how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.”
“Give thy thoughts
no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act.”
“Give every man thy
ear, but few thy voice. Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgement.”
“Neither a borrower nor
a lender be, for loan ‘oft loses both itself it friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
“This above all
to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day. Thou can’st not then be false to any man.”
“It is common
for the younger sort to lack discretion.”
“Brevity
is the soul of wit.”
“Nothing either good
or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“When a piece of work is a man,
how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and and admirable, in action how like an angel, in aprehension like a god.”
“To be honest
as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“I must be cruel
only to be kind.”
“Rich gifts
wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
“For some must watch
while some must sleep. So runs the world away.”
“For use almost
can change the stamp of nature.”
“Thus the native
hue is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”
“When sorrows
come they come not in single spies but in battalians.”
“We know what we
are but not what we may be.”
“A knavish
speech sleeps in a foolish ear.”
“Rightly to be great
is not to stir without great argument but greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honor’s at the stake.”
“Good night sweet
prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
“Cat will
mew, and dog will have his day.”
“To know even one life
has been made easier because you have lived, this is success.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiest people do not
get the best of everything, they make the best of everything.”
“The only failure
is not to try.”
“It is not in the stars
to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” - Shakespeare
“Manners easily
and rapidly mature into morals.”
“Circumstances don’t
make a man, they reveal him.” - James Allen
“To you know you don’t
know is the beginning of wisdom.” - Plato
“Experience is a hard
teacher : she gives the test first and the lessons afterward.” - C. S. Lewis
“Make it thy buisiness to know
thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” - De Cervantes from Don Quixote
“If you change the way you
look at things, the things you look at change.”
“You are only as happy
as you choose to be.” - Abe Lincoln
“In the confrontation
between the rock and the stream, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through perserverence.” - Buddha
“We make a living
by what we do. We make a life by what we give.” - Winston Churchill
“Remember this hour
of this day. This is the most important hour and day in this lifetime. The past can not be altered, but this time determines eternity.” - Emerson
“If a man is called to be a
streetsweeper, he should sweep streets as Michaelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music, or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”” - Martin Luther King
“A pessimist sees
the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Churchill
“Insanity is
repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome.” - Einstein
