Socrates on Perseverance Quotes

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

"I shall not cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, as long as I have breath and strength."

"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."

"I am not a citizen of Athens or Greece, but of the world."

"The best way to avoid a bad reputation is to live a good life."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher."

"I am and always have been one of those natures who must be guided by reason, whatever the reason may be which upon reflection appears to me to be the best."

"Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be."

"Endurance is the knowledge or habit of what is to be endured and what is not."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear."

"A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong."

"Through your rags I see your vanity."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"To move the world we must first move ourselves."

"Let him who would move the world first move himself."

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."

"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"Is it not a shame for a man to be so ignorant of his own body as to not know how to help himself?"