"We have no commission from God to police the world."

Harrison, Benjamin on diplomacy
3 fans of this quote   

"The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me."

Harrison, George on identity   

"Life flows on within you and without you."

Harrison, George on life
7 fans of this quote   

"Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else."

Harvey, Paul on joy   

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

Harvey, Paul on memory
8 fans of this quote   

"I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist."

Harvey, Paul on pessimism
4 fans of this quote   

"The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Humanity's flaw is that we can deteriorate; but our virtue is that we can improve."

Hasidic Saying on   

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

Havel, Vaclav on humor
5 fans of this quote   

"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."

Havel, Vaclav on action   

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on joy   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on death
3 fans of this quote   

"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."

Hayakawa, S. I. on failure
3 fans of this quote   

"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

Hayakawa, S. I. on life
5 fans of this quote   

"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."

Hayakawa, S. I. on self discovery   

"If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through."

Hayakawa, S. I. on society   

"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

Hayakawa, S. I. on books - reading
4 fans of this quote   

"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."

Hayakawa, S. I. on culture   

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
67 fans of this quote   

"If you rest, you rust."

Hayes, Helen on rest
4 fans of this quote   

"Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people."

Hecht, Ben on cinema
3 fans of this quote   

"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Hegel, Friedrich on history and historians
6 fans of this quote   

"one can never consent to creep when one feels an impluse to soar"

helen keller on good   

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
19 fans of this quote   

"Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s."

Epictetus on destiny
3 fans of this quote   

"No man is free who is not a master of himself."

Epictetus on freedom
14 fans of this quote   

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
53 fans of this quote   

"No great thing is created suddenly."

Epictetus on greatness
4 fans of this quote   

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

Epictetus on happiness
10 fans of this quote   

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
24 fans of this quote   

"It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking."

Epictetus on insults
3 fans of this quote   

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

Epictetus on attitude
28 fans of this quote   

"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent."

Epictetus on perfection
4 fans of this quote   

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

Epictetus on pleasure
4 fans of this quote   

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
17 fans of this quote   

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on action
11 fans of this quote   

"It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice."

Epictetus on choice
5 fans of this quote   

"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."

Epictetus on criticism
8 fans of this quote   

"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

Epicurus on desire
3 fans of this quote   

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."

Epicurus on happiness
4 fans of this quote   

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."

Epicurus on happiness