The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
More Quotes from Plutarch
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
More on These Topics
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
