Today Quotes
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.Andre Gide
Union gives strength.Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Have no friends not equal to yourself.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.Edmund Burke