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The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Related topics: Values Honor Self
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates 
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
My concern is not whether God is on our side;
my greatest concern is to be on God's side,
for God is always right.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
I pray that my greatest desires will always be for
exactly what Spirit is offering me at that very moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
My greatest Power and my greatest Inner Peace come
when I Intend my future, and when I avoid Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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