Quotes by Philosophers

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

Strength You Courage Someone Gives Being Loved While Loving Deeply

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato

Wise Speak Men Fools Say Something Wise Men Because

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

Mind Thought Mark Entertain Able Without Accepting Educated

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius

Life Complicated Simple Insist Making Really

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Backwards Must Only Understood Lived

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu

You Change Direction Heading End Up May Where

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius

Knowledge Ignorance Know Real Real Knowledge Extent

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus

You Matters React How Happens

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell

Time You Enjoy Wasted Wasted Time Wasting

There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus

Change Nothing Except Permanent

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu

Love Kindness Confidence Words Giving Thinking Creates

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

Beauty Everyone Everything Sees

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu

Journey Thousand Thousand Miles Step Begins Miles

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus

Happiness Life Man Simple Harmony Except He Between Leads

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. Sun Tzu

You Director Fate Extremely Point Mysterious Opponent Subtle Thereby Even

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche

Stronger Makes Does Which Us

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love Friendship Unhappy Marriages Makes Lack

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius

Motivational Win Will Keys Unlock Potential Excellence Reach Personal Door Urge Succeed Your Full Full Potential Desire

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

Life Live Bear He Almost How Any Who Why

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle

Motivational Quality Habit Act

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

You Will Long Abyss Become Enough Monster Monsters Back Gaze See He Does Process Should Fights Whoever

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle

Time Angry Anger Right Person Degree Power Become Everybody Right Time Way Right Way Easy Purpose Within Person Anybody Right