Quotes

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Some things are in our control and others not. Focus on what you can control.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Know thyself.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I know that I know nothing.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the b…

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.