“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
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Wise Quotes — page 54 of 916
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”
“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
“It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.”
“You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”
“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”
“Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.”
“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”
“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”
“To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.”
“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”
“It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.”
“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”
“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
“In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.”
“In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.”
“He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.”
“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”
“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”