Book Quote by Michel de Montaigne

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am,…

— Barbie Ferreira

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is necessary to avoid falling prey to the demands that others make, especially if what they want is different from your choices or…

— Steven Redhead

Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.

— Sheikh Hasina

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others…

— Martha Washington

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

— Anonymous

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall…

— H. P. Blavatsky

If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…

— Amos Oz

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

— Mother Maribel

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world…

— Anonymous