General Quotes

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

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

“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“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.”

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”