On Happiness:
· Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. (Aristotle)
· Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Aristotle)
· The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. (Thucydides)
· There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. (Epictetus)
· Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Epicurus)
On Leadership:
· Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. (Euripides)
· He that always gives way to others will end up having no principles of his own. (Aesop)
· What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. (Pericles)
On Peak Performance:
· Well begun is half done. (Aristotle)
· First, have a definite, clear, practical idea; a goal, an objective. Second have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third adjust all your means to that end. (Aristotle)
· The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory in surmounting it. (Epicurus)
· You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour. (Aristotle)
· Success is dependent on effort. (Sophocles)
· To find fault is easy, to do better may be difficult. (Plutarch)
On Listening:
· Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. (Plutarch)
· Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something. (Plato)
On Life:
· An honest man is always a child. (Socrates)
· Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. (Theophrastus)
· Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds. (Democritus)
· Raising children is an uncertain thing, success is reached only after a lifetime of battle and worry. (Democritus)
· All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way. (Epictetus)
· One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. (Plato)
· Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings. (Diogenes)
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