“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”
~Virgil

“A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? / To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.”
~ Bible quotes

“Public calamity is a mighty leveler”
~ Edmund Burke

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
~Oliver Goldsmith

“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.”
~ William Shakespeare

“He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.”
~Philip Massinger

“Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.”
~ William Davenant

“Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid”
~ Publilius Syrus

“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.”
~Bill Watterson

“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
~ Samuel Richardson

“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.”
~ Sun Tzu

And my favorite calamity quote:
“He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.”
~ Bishop Porteous

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“You have your ideology and I have mine.”
~Kahlil Gibran

“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
~Jean Genet

“Ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’ – it is profoundly unconscious.”
~Louis Althusser

“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”
~Hal Borland quotes

“If any ideology is so serious that you can’t have fun while you’re doing it, it’s probably too serious.”
~Larry Wall

“It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.”
~ Marian Wright Edelman

“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist! ”
~Carl Jung

“Great teachers transcend ideology.”
~Suzanne Fields

“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ”historical tasks” is an actual or potential assassin. ”
~Albert Camus

“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ”
~Albert Camus

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”
~Eugene Ionesco

“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
~Theodor Adorno

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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
~Henry David Thoreau

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

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
~Friedrich Von Schlegel

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
~John Webster

Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by.
~André Maurois

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
~François de la Rochefoucauld

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
~George Orwell

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
~Victor Hugo

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
~Samuel Butler

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~Aristotle

Too much virtue can be criminal.
~Jean Racine

Virtue is reason which has become energy.
~Friedrich Von Schlegel

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
~George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
~Francis Bacon

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
~William Shakespeare

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
~George Bernard Shaw

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
~Edmund Burke

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
~William Shakespeare

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
~Plato

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
~Honore de Balzac

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.
~Lord Byron

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
~Edgar Watson Howe

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
~Barbara Amiel

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“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
~ Sandra Carey

“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
~Tom Wilson

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”
~Sidonie Gabrielle

What a new face courage puts on everything.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”
~Kahlil Gibran

“If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”
~ Dennis Roch.

“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
~Gian Carlo Menotti

“on’t speak unless you can improve upon the silence.”
~ Spanish Proverb.

“When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence”
~Saying by unknown author

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, But you live in torment if you don’t trust enough.”
~ Unknown

“A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives.”
~ Proverb

“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.”
~Ben Sweetland

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.?€
~ John A. Simone

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
~Confucius

?€œWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
~ Kahlil Gibran

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.”
~Bill Lemley

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship”
~Epicurus

More Wisdom Quotes:

Victory
Perfection
Experience
Achievement
Duty
Optimism
Passion
Responsibility
Gratitude
Adversity
Attitude

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“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
~ Galileo

“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
~ Aeschylus

“A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
~David Brinkley

“One of the most difficult things is not to change society -but to change yourself.”
~Nelson Mandela

“Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path, but the lesson to be learned is always ours.”
~ Unknown

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
~Babe Ruth

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
~Napoleon Hill

“Formal Education will make you a living.
Self education will make you a fortune.”
~Jim Rohn

“Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.”
~Colin Powell

“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.”
~Alexis Carrel

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
~William B. Sprague

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ”
~ Walt Emerson

“Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.”
~Jameson Frank

“The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. ”
~ Thomas Carlyle

“The best way to predict the future is to create it. ”
~ Peter F. Drucker

“Success is something you attract by the person you become. ”
~ Jim Rohn

“Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.”
~Mark Twain

“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
~John Stuart Mill

“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect.?€
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We can not become what we need to by remaining what we are.”
~Oprah Winfrey

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These are some of my favorite education quotes. I hope you will like them.

“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.”
~William Ellery Channing

“Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.”
~ Perelman

“Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.”
~ R. Verdi

“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”
~Hellen Keller

“Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.”
~Benjamin Disraeli, and only Obama seem to understand it, from his speeches at least.

“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.”
~Chinese Saying

“She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.”
~John Mason Brown

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
~ Henry Brooks Adams

“Learning is finding out what you already know”
~Richard Bach

“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.”
~Ethel Barrymore

“History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”
~Thucydides

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~Malcolm Forbes

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
~ Tom Bodett

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
~Galileo Galilei

“Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.”
~St. Francis Xavier

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
~Alec Bourne

“Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.”
~Rosabeth Moss Kantor

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
~Will Durant

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
~Winston Churchill

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
~Alec Bourne

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
~Herbert Spencer

“Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.”
~Wendy Kaminer

“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
~Oscar Wilde

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~Malcolm Forbes

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
~Epictetus

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”
~Bill Beattie

“Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
~ Henry Peter Broughan

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“Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
Joan Rivers

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For myself I am an optimist–it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
~ Winston Churchill

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
~Helen Keller

“If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.”
~Albert Camus

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
~ Maria Robinson

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise?€”
~ Oscar Wilde

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
~Oscar Wilde

“Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.”
~ Charles Eliot

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
~Lucille Ball

“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”
~ Don Marquis

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”
~ Milan Kundera

“I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.”
~Nancy Reagan

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
~ Alex Tan

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
~Warren Buffett

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
~Martin Luther

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
~Oscar Wilde

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
~Muhammed Ali

“I find nothing more depressing than optimism.”
~ Paul Fussell

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A collection of perfection quotes, let me start with something that really is motivating, and is quite true.

“To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ”
~Elbert Hubbard

But my favorite would be, “Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.”
~ Michaelangelo

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”
~ Sam Keen quotes

“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ”
~Stanley J. Randall

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
~ Buddha

“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”
~William Ellery Channing

“When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.”
~George Fisher

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.?€
~ Winston Churchill

“Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands… but English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
~W. Somerset Maugham

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
~Eugene Delacroix

“Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.”
~Chinese Proverb

“It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.”
~Samuel Johnson

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.?€”
~Saint Augustine

“He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.”
~Italian Proverb

“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
~ Angelique Arnauld

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
~Salvador Dali

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“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”
~ Martin Luther quotes

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”

~ Charles C Noble

This is my favorite and this is something that I would like you to ponder upon. “It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
~ Josiah Charles Stamp

On a similar note, see this quote by Alfred A. Montapert, ” Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
~Albert Einstein

“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.” Dalai Lama

“There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.” ~Mark Twain

“Our responsibility as privileged human beings is to pay back for the opportunities we’ve received. ” ~Kathryn Anastos

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A Bible Quote on Great Men, “Great men are not always wise”

A Bible Quote on Action, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ”

A Bible Quote on Fools,”A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult”

A Bible quote on Prosperity, “In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ”

A Bible Quote on hard Work,”Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. ”

A wisdom quote from the bible “They that sow in tears shall reap joy.”

‘He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.”

“Bear one another’s burdens. ”

“Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. ”

“For the fashion of this world passeth away, ”

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. ”

“It is more blessed to give than to receive. ”

‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.”

“He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.’”

“Be careful not to do your ?€˜acts of righteousness?€™ before men, to be seen by them.”

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.”

“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.”

“For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.”

“But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.”

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