Action

1. Action • To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)American author and poet. One famous line from one of her poems, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone”

2. Anger • Anyone can become angry that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way that is not easy.Aristotle (384-322 BC)Aristotle was a Greek philosopher born in Stagirus, northern Greece, in 384 BCE. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child

3. Beauty • I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden.St. Augustine (354-430 AD)Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine or Saint Austin, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy

4. Becoming • The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.John Ruskin (1819-1900) John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist

5. Wealth • To be wealthy and honoured in an unjust society is a disgrace.Confucius (551-479BC)Ancient Chinese teacher and wise man

6. Best Choice • For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. Aristotle (384-322 BC)

7. Character • Character is fate.  Heraclitus (535-475BC)Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage.

8. Character • To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. Aristotle (384-322 BC)

9. Comfort • We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't Frank Clark (Born 1943-)An English former footballer and manager, and former chairman of Nottingham Forest.

10. Revenge • Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours. • Erica O’RourkeContemporary author

11. Contentment • He who is not content with what he has, would not be content with what he would like to have. Socrates (Died 399BC)Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers

12. Delusions • Nowadays everyone in the world is deluded about right and wrong, and confused about benefit and harm. Because so many people share this sickness, no one perceives that it is a sickness. Lao Zi (604-531BC)Laozi was a philosopher and poet of ancient China. He is best known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, but he is also revered as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions

13. Peace • True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. • Jane Addams(1860-1935)Pioneer social worker, thinker and author

14. Education • Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.Aristotle (384-322 BC)

15. Money • People have to struggle to live and frequently to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in our relationship with money, and our acceptance of it’s power over ourselves and our society.Pope Francis(1936-)Top man in the Catholic Church

16. Education • The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato (Died 347BC)

17. Education • The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." – Aristotle (384-322 BC)

18. Education • The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle (384-322 BC)

19. Education • Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle (384-322 BC)

20. Equality • The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle (384-322 BC)

21. Equality • So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be  half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) An English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer

22. Excellence • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle (384-322 BC)

23. Friend • What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  Aristotle (384-322 BC)

24. Aristotle • Without friends, no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods.Aristotle (384-322 BC)

25. Genius • There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity.Aristotle (384-322 BC)

26. God • I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within!Socrates (Died 399BC)

27. God • I cannot forgive Descartes; in all his philosophy he did his best to dispense with God. But he could not avoid making Him set the world in motion with a flip of His thumb; after that he had no more use for God.Blaise Pascal (1623-62)Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen

28. God • He who has God in his heart carries Paradise with him wherever he goes.Saint Ignatius (1491-1556AD)Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and, on 19 April 1541, became its first Superior General

29. Money • Concern with the idols of power, profit, and money, rather than with the value of the human person has become a basic norm for functioning and a crucial criterion for organizationPope Francis(1936-)Top man in the Catholic Church

30. Goodness • The higher the prestige of wealth and the wealthy, the lower that of goodness and good men will be. Plato (Died 347BC)

31. Habits • It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. Aristotle (384-322 BC)

32. Habits • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle (384-322 BC)

33. Happiness • Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Keller (1880-1968)1st Deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

34. Happiness • Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.Pope Francis(1936-)Top man in the Catholic Church

35. Happiness • Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.Democritus (460-370BC)Ancient Greek thinker, came up with an atomic theory of the universe

36. Honors • It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain (1835-1910AD)Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called “the Great American Novel”

37. Inner • The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)Eckhart von Hochheim O.P., commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire

38. Invisible • It is by invisible hands that we are tortured most.Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900AD)Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer

39. Jobs • All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle (384-322 BC)

40. Justice • Never pray for justice, because you might get some.Margaret Atwood(1939-)Canadian poet and book writer.

41. Justice • Justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881AD)1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, was a British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and dandy who twice served as Prime Minister

42. Justice • The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.Voltaire (1694-1778)

43. Justice • Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)Founding Father of USA. Storm kite flyer.

44. Law • Wherever the law ends, tyranny begins. John Locke (1632 – 1704AD)An English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism"

45. Law • We must not make a scarecrow of the law; setting it up to fear the birds of prey and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror. William Shakespeare (1564-1616AD)William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

46. Learn • For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.Aristotle (384-322 BC)

47. Learn • We cannot learn without pain.Aristotle (384-322 BC)

48. Life • Life can be understood only backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855AD)Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher 1855AD)

49. Life • The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates (Died 399BC)

50. Life • Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single  life earns as much merit as though he had rescued theentire world.The Talmud, Mishna Central Jewish text.