Xunzi Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. — Frank Herbert

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness. — Dalai Lama

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day. — Abraham Lincoln

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose ... Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.' — Richard M. Nixon

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself. — Sherwood Anderson

I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air. — Lisa Kleypas

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps. — Phil Klay

I want to be famous everywhere. — Luciano Pavarotti

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was. — Ashley Judd