Echoes

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Bear in mind, that if through toil you accomplish a good deed, that toil will quickly pass from you, the good deed will not leave you so long as you live; but if through pleasure you do anything dishonourable, the pleasure will quickly pass away, that dishonourable act will remain with you for ever.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.