Quotes 361 till 380 of 10221.
-
It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
-
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
-
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
-
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
-
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
-
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
-
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
-
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
-
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
-
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
-
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
-
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
-
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
-
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
-
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
-
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
All not famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 19)
