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“A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.”

Men Mind Wisdom Wise Rocks Wind Honor Abuse Disturbed

Author:Dalai Lama

“Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.”

Years Humans Children Hands Mother President Human Beings Darkness Gone Wise Honor Equal Soldier Planes Chasms

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.”

World Want Character Passion Wise Honor Command Chains Rely Appetite Resisting Fear Not Polished

Author:Horace

“No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.”

Men Country Pay Wise Mankind Honor Promise Understood Regard Endeavor Obliged Oath Being Wise Chaste Creditors

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.”

Thinking Children Wise Honor Ambition Brave Graves Cradle Bait Gilded

Author:William Davenant

“Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.”

Giving Heart Care Lost Hours Wealth Pleasure Wise Honor Taste Health Care Cheerful Timely

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

“Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world”

“Everyone honors the wise.”

Book:Gorgias and Rhetoric

Source: Gorgias and Rhetoric

“Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.”

“When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.”

Enough Wisdom Literature Community Pay Teacher Wise Honor Mature

Author:Charles Kuralt

“A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.”

Men Suffering Common Wise Wonderful Honor Silent Rounds Saint Mysterious Veils Sanctity Silent Man

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing him with steadfast passion and enthralled fury — instead of loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; instead of attributing to him glory and honor and praise and power and wisdom and strength — we just try to take his toys and run. It is still idolatry to want God for his benefits but not for himself.”

Want Trying Mind Heart Stills Soul Running Universe Passion Rich Wise Honor Horror Benefits Glory Praise Valuable Toys Fury Loving God Idolatry Steadfast Loving Him Glory And Honor

Author:Matt Chandler

“Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.”

Men Passion Strong Freedom Lord Poverty Wise Honor Finished Chains Despise Alarms

Author:Horace

“Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.”

Ifs Thinking Men Wisdom Silence Virtue Wise Fool Honor Infirmity

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc