“Whatever else you fail to guard, guard your tongue; for slips of speech bring sorrow.”
Thiruvalluvar
SpeechSelf Control
Great Quotes
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Great Quotes
Read the best great quotes on greatness, ambition and achieving great things from Vivekananda, Kabir, Churchill, Carlyle, Lao Tzu, Thiruvalluvar and more.
“The wound made by fire may heal, but the wound made by the tongue never heals.”
Thiruvalluvar
Kind WordsSpeech
“Good conduct brings greatness; so guard it more carefully than life itself.”
Thiruvalluvar
CharacterGreatness
“Speak no lie against your own conscience; once spoken, your conscience will burn you.”
Thiruvalluvar
HonestyConscience
“Outward purity comes from water; inward purity comes from truth.”
Thiruvalluvar
TruthPurity
“If you would guard yourself, guard against anger; unguarded, anger will destroy you.”
Thiruvalluvar
AngerSelf Control
“Like the tortoise that draws in its five limbs, whoever restrains the five senses in one life will find joy through seven births.”
Thiruvalluvar
Self ControlDiscipline
“The cautious seldom err.”
Confucius
CautionShort Quotes
“The ancients did not readily give utterance to their words, because they feared lest their actions should not come up to them.”
Confucius
IntegrityAction
“All warfare is based on deception.”
Sun Tzu
StrategyWar
“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.”
Pythagoras
Inner StrengthCharacter
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius
AngerWisdom
“Dripping water hollows out a stone.”
Ovid
PersistencePatience
“Luck never gives; it only lends.”
Seneca
LuckFortune
“The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”
Aesop
PrideFables
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
Aesop
CourageFables
“Time and tide wait for no man.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
TimeShort Quotes
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
William Shakespeare
HonestyFunny
“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”
Francis Bacon
MoneyWisdom
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
LeadershipHope
“In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
StrengthLife
“Thy gentleness hath made me great.”
The Bible (Psalm 18:35)
GentlenessFaith
“The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.”
The Bible (Psalm 111:2)
WonderCreation
“For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.”
The Bible (Psalm 95:3)
MajestyPraise
“Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”
The Bible (Matthew 13:46)
ValuePriorities