Quotes for English Learners
List of inspirational quotes
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This is a list of inspirational quotes
A weed
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Adversity The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Seneca
An infinity of choicesYou and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra
Answer nothingQuestion everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Euripides
Avoiding criticismThere is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Aristotle
Be contentBe content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Be oneWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Born with wingsYou were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
Depressed, anxious or at peace?If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Lao Tzu
DistressIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Don't knock yourselfNo man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Evil
Excess
Fighting and persistingWhatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
Eckhart Tolle
Fortune Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Euripides
Go confidentlyGo confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Good actionsGood actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
Have few desiresManifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
How to begin each dayBegin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
Marcus Aurelius
How you made them feelI've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Human behaviorHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
If you...If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.
Lao Tzu
In a stormYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Seneca
In yourselfThere's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Insults
It is good for youDo not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides
Just a toolA sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Seneca
KnowingThose who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
Lao Tzu
Knowing littlePeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Letting things goSometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Eckhart Tolle
LimitsIf you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
Make the NOW the primary focusRealize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
More than is necessaryA man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Seneca
No extra pieces in the universeThere are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra
Part of all
Simplicity, patience, compassionSimplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
Lao Tzu
Stop thinkingStop thinking, and end your problems.
Lao Tzu
That scares you
The color of its thoughts
The highest levels of performanceThe highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
Deepak Chopra
The mindThe mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
The person you decide to be
The shriftWe should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca
The two most important daysThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
Their prisonerCare about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
Lao Tzu
TrialsA gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Seneca
Trying all things
Twice armedWe are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato
Two roadsTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Without a plan
Without a sense of identityWithout a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.
Paulo Freire
Yet everything is accomplishedNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
You know what you wantAt the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
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