Order is Power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our
powers.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for
man with self-surrender.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by

contagion.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of
societies.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and
retain its self command.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of

thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in
acts.

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never
decides.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is

impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able
to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a
piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and
vary the song.

-Henri frederic Amiel

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is over self.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and
belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while
the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the
universal, and history only the particular.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just
acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
-Aristotle

"No amount of self-improvement can make up for a lack of self-acceptance."

- Robert Holden

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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may
make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole
world.

- Immanuel Kant

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all
inaction.

- Goethe

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

- Harold Nicolson

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to

accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved
along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of
the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

- Helen Keller

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is
idle.

- Kahlil Gibran

Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we
desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.

- Mohammed

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must
sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not
drift, nor lie at anchor.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we

like.Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we
like.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself
do right in spite of your feelings.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men
prevail.

- Pearl S. Buck

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do
when they don't have to.

- Walter Linn

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling
deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments,
propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start
searching for different ways or truer answers.

- M. Scott Peck

The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And
happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile
atmosphere, you feel happy.

- H.H. the Dalai Lama