“For as it is not one swallow or a fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy.”
Aristotle
HabitsHappiness
Best Quotes
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Best Quotes
Read 200 of the best quotes about doing your best, the best things in life and bringing out the best in yourself, from Aristotle, Shakespeare, Emerson and more.
“We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
Aristotle
HabitsCharacter
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Plato
Self-ReflectionLife
“The greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue.”
Plato
VirtueConversation
“Everywhere means nowhere.”
Seneca
FocusWisdom
“If a thing is difficult to be accomplished by thyself, do not think that it is impossible for man.”
Marcus Aurelius
PossibilityCourage
“The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last.”
Marcus Aurelius
CharacterMortality
“It is better to die of hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation.”
Epictetus
PeaceContentment
“Its highest virtue looks like a valley.”
Lao Tzu
HumilityVirtue
“Great skill appears clumsy; great eloquence like stammering.”
Lao Tzu
MasteryHumility
“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”
Confucius
VirtueCharacter
“He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.”
Confucius
ActionIntegrity
“Even though a speech be a thousand of words, but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
WordsWisdom
“He who lives a hundred years, ignorant and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is wise and reflecting.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
WisdomLife
“How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!”
The Bible (Proverbs 16:16)
WisdomWealth
“Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.”
The Bible (Proverbs 19:1)
IntegrityHonesty
“A good name is better than precious ointment.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:1)
ReputationCharacter
“Wisdom is better than strength.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:16)
WisdomStrength
“For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”
The Bible (Psalm 84:10)
FaithJoy
“Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.”
The Bible (Proverbs 17:1)
PeaceSimplicity
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
The Bible (Acts 20:35)
GenerosityGiving
“Open rebuke is better than secret love.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:5)
HonestyFriendship
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
William Shakespeare
PunctualityTime
“Better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-break.”
William Shakespeare
HonestyLove
“An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.”
William Shakespeare
HonestySimplicity