“Stand a little out of my sun.”
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Read 200 of the best cool quotes about keeping calm, effortless style, confidence and cool evenings, from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and more.
“If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”
Alexander the Great
RespectIndependence
“How many things there are which I do not need!”
Socrates
MinimalismContentment
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Epictetus
Self-ControlFreedom
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
Marcus Aurelius
Inner StrengthSelf-Reliance
“Take care that thou art not made into a Caesar, that thou art not dyed with this dye.”
Marcus Aurelius
HumilityCharacter
“He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk easily.”
Lao Tzu
EffortlessBalance
“He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines.”
Lao Tzu
HumilityConfidence
“What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.”
Confucius
Self-RelianceCharacter
“When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.”
Confucius
ResilienceWinter
“You are not a fish; how do you know what constitutes the pleasure of fish?”
Chuang Tzu
PerspectiveWit
“He is a great man who uses earthenware dishes as if they were silver.”
Seneca
ContentmentStyle
“Inwardly, we ought to be different in all respects, but our exterior should conform to society.”
Seneca
IndividualityStyle
“They that have power to hurt and will do none, they are the lords and owners of their faces.”
William Shakespeare
ComposurePower
“But I am constant as the northern star.”
William Shakespeare
SteadinessConfidence
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
William Shakespeare
ActionConfidence
“I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.”
William Shakespeare
CourageCharacter
“There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
StyleFunny
“A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
MannersCharacter
“It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.”
Henry David Thoreau
ChillFunny
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
IntegrityFunny
“I am not an American; I am the American.”
Mark Twain
ConfidenceFunny
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
BoldnessWitty
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
Oscar Wilde
StyleWitty
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
Oscar Wilde
BoldnessFunny