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When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
Michelle Obamaborn 1964Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (25 July 2016)
- Advice
- Character
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Commencement address at Stanford University (12 June 2005)
- Advice
- Courage
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 8:36 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)
- Freedom
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Time
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Morality
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Morality
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb: “Speak softly and carry a big stick⁠—you will go far.” If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919National Duties (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick) (1901)
- Leadership
- Power
He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)
- Knowledge
If you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
- Advice
- Comedy
‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
- Advice
- Writing
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIIIn context
- Advice
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by OpheliaIn context
- Advice
- Morality
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Advice