Buddha

A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

What we think, we become.
Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Mahatma / Mohandas Gandhi

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mohandas Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mohandas Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mohandas Gandhi

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mohandas Gandhi

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mohandas Gandhi

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mohandas Gandhi

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mohandas Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.
Mohandas Gandhi

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mohandas Gandhi

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mohandas Gandhi

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mohandas Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mohandas Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mohandas Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mohandas Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mohandas Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mohandas Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mohandas Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mohandas Gandhi

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mohandas Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mohandas Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mohandas Gandhi

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mohandas Gandhi

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Mohandas Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mohandas Gandhi

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Mohandas Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Gandhi

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mohandas Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mohandas Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mohandas Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mohandas Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mohandas Gandhi

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Mohandas Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mohandas Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mohandas Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Mohandas Gandhi

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mohandas Gandhi

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mohandas Gandhi

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mohandas Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mohandas Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mohandas Gandhi

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Mohandas Gandhi

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mohandas Gandhi

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gandhi

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mohandas Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mohandas Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Mohandas Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mohandas Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mohandas Gandhi

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mohandas Gandhi

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Mohandas Gandhi

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mohandas Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mohandas Gandhi

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mohandas Gandhi

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mohandas Gandhi

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mohandas Gandhi

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mohandas Gandhi

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mohandas Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas Gandhi

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mohandas Gandhi

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mohandas Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mohandas Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mohandas Gandhi

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mohandas Gandhi

Morality is contraband in war.
Mohandas Gandhi

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mohandas Gandhi

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mohandas Gandhi

My life is my message.
Mohandas Gandhi

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mohandas Gandhi

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mohandas Gandhi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mohandas Gandhi

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mohandas Gandhi

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mohandas Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mohandas Gandhi

Non-violence is the article of faith.
Mohandas Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mohandas Gandhi

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mohandas Gandhi

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mohandas Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mohandas Gandhi

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mohandas Gandhi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mohandas Gandhi

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mohandas Gandhi

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mohandas Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mohandas Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mohandas Gandhi

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mohandas Gandhi

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Gandhi

Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mohandas Gandhi

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mohandas Gandhi

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mohandas Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mohandas Gandhi

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mohandas Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mohandas Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mohandas Gandhi

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mohandas Gandhi

The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mohandas Gandhi

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mohandas Gandhi

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mohandas Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mohandas Gandhi

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mohandas Gandhi

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mohandas Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mohandas Gandhi

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mohandas Gandhi

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mohandas Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mohandas Gandhi

Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Mohandas Gandhi

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Gandhi

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mohandas Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mohandas Gandhi

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mohandas Gandhi

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mohandas Gandhi

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Gandhi

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mohandas Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mohandas Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mohandas Gandhi

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mohandas Gandhi

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mohandas Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mohandas Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mohandas Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas Gandhi

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mohandas Gandhi

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mohandas Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mohandas Gandhi

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mohandas Gandhi

Where love is, there God is also.
Mohandas Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi

Napoleon Bonaparte

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte

England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

France has more need of me than I have need of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Respect the burden.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
Napoleon Bonaparte

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Dalai Lama

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa

William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

I was adored once too.
William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare

O, had I but followed the arts!
William Shakespeare

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare

Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare

There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
William Shakespeare

There's place and means for every man alive.
William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare

They say miracles are past.
William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare

What's done can't be undone.
William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare

Benjamin Franklin

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

Beware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin Franklin

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin Franklin

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin

He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

He that's secure is not safe.
Benjamin Franklin

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin Franklin

No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin

Observe all men, thyself most.
Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin

Our necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin Franklin

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin Franklin

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin Franklin

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin

Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin

When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin

Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin