CURATED COLLECTION

Choosing Your Values

The life you build will only be as meaningful as the principles you choose to build it on.

57 quotes found

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

—Carl SaganAstronomer & Author

Post-War ERA • North America

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Do not consider painful what is good for you.

—EuripidesScholar & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

—Nawal El SaadawiFeminist, Writer & Physician

Late Modern ERA • North Africa

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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it, in relative opacity.

—Frantz FanonPhilosopher

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Truth is not always comfortable. But it is always necessary.

—Nayantara SahgalNovelist & Writer

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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A woman who has children is not afraid of death.

—Flora NwapaNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

—C.S. LewisWriter & Theologian

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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It is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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You can tell a truth that frightens people or a lie that comforts them.

—Naguib MahfouzNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • North Africa

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It is not that I'm so brave, it is just that I'm too stubborn to quit.

—SenecaPhilosopher, Statesman & Playwright

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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He who reigns within himself, rules passions, desires, fears, is more than a king.

—John MiltonEnglish Poet and Intellectual

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

—Lao TzuPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do.

—Isabel AllendeNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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A man’s life is measured by his deeds, not by his years.

—PremchandWriter

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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Compassion is not weakness; kindness of heart is strength.

—Aung San Suu KyiPolitician

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

—Sun TzuAuthor

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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The test of a first‑rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

—F. Scott FitzgeraldNovelist & Essayist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

—Mahatma GandhiLawyer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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Know yourself and know your enemy, and you need not fear a hundred battles.

—Sun TzuAuthor

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

—PythagorasPhilosopher & Mathematician

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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