Moral Philosophy (Quotes)

No pain,

no gain (Ben Franklin)

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

or help one fainting robin,

unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain. (Emily Dickinson)

No pain,

no gain (Ben Franklin)

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

or help one fainting robin,

unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain. (Emily Dickinson)

The penalty they pay

is the life they lead […].   (Plato)

Never ruin an apology

with an excuse (Ben Franklin)

Know Thyself

(Inscription at The Oracle at Delphi)

Nothing too much

(Inscription at The Oracle at Delphi)

What is hard?

To know oneself. (Thales)

The unexamined life..

is not worth living (Socrates)

We learn to live..

when life is past (Seneca)

We learn not for life..

but for the school room (Seneca)

As long as you live..

keep learning how to live (Seneca)

Self-reflection is..

the school of wisdom (Baltasar Gracian)

Self-knowledge is the..

beginning of self-improvement (Baltasar Gracian)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies..

than a fool from his friends (Baltasar Gracian)

There are mirrors for the face…

but none for the soul (Baltasar Gracian)

Let careful thought about yourself..

serve as a substitute (Baltasar Gracian)

See through someone else and you’re clever…

see through yourself and you are enlightened (Lao Tzu)

If you do not reflect…

you will project (author unknown)

We give up three-quarters of ourselves

in order to be like other people (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Virtue comes

by teaching (Aristotle)

Repetition is

the mother of learning (Latin Proverb)

To disregard

is to win regard (Italian Proverb)

Absolve you to yourself

and you shall have the suffrage of the world (Emerson)

we all love ourselves more than anyone else,

yet we care more for their good opinion than our own (Marcus Aurelius)

This above all:

to thine own self be true (Shakespeare)

Find a job you love,

and you’ll never have to work a day in your life (Confucius)

We give up three-fourths of ourselves,

in order to be like other people (Arthur Schopenhauer)

The crowd

is untruth (Søren Kierkegaard)

To say, ‘I love you,’

one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ (Ayn Rand)

If I know your sect,

I anticipate your argument (Emerson)

One can many great people who we’re not very gifted

They acquired greatness. They became geniuses. (Nietzsche)

Evil comes from

a failure to think (Hannah Arendt)

they were, and still are,

terribly and terrifyingly normal. (Hannah Arendt)

the line dividing good and evil cuts

through the heart of every human being. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn

If we had no faults,

we would not take so much pleasure in discovering them in others (Francois)

I do

and I understand (Confucius)

There is no such thing as bad weather,

just bad clothing (Norwegian Proverb)

Some things are up to us

and some are not up to us (Epictetus)

Seek to understand

before seeking to be understood (Stephan Covey)

No one was ever glorious

who was not laborious (Ben Franklin)

To win

without fighting is best (Sun Tzu)

All I know

is that I know nothing (Socrates)

Be humble

or be humbled (unknown)

Hard work beats talent

when talent doesn’t work hard (unknown)

Whoever is great and humble

is twice great (Ben Franklin)

The mouth lies, but

the face speaks the truth (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Avoid the faults

of your nation (Baltasar Gracian)

For without friends

no one would choose to live (Aristotle)

Nothing works

if you don’t (unknown)

Tell me who your friends are

and I’ll tell you who you are (Russian Proverb)

Virtue emits a

breath at every moment (Emerson)

Know your

chief fault (Gracian)

Belief in a fact

often creates the fact (William James)

They can, because

they think they can (Virgil)

Trust the Process

Motto of 49ers

run from pleasure

and it will chase you (Ben Franklin)

Life ebbs even as I speak, so seize the day,

and grant no credit to the morrow (Horace)

He who has learned how to die

has unlearned how to be a slave. (Michel de Montaigne)

We must all choose one of two pains:

the pain of discipline or the pain of regret (Jim Rohn)