Socrates on Perseverance Quotes

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

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

"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."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

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

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"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."

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

"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."

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

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

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

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

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

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

"Through your rags I see your vanity."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"I will never do anything but what the reason, which on reflection appears to me to be the best, bids me do."