No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Quote by Plutarch

Topics: Communication Quotes, Silence Quotes, Speech Quotes

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial...

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial...

Time is the wisest of all counselors

Time is the wisest of all counselors

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Character is long-standing habit.

Character is long-standing habit.

Character is long-standing habit.

Character is long-standing habit.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

When the candles are out all women are fair

When the candles are out all women are fair

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's...

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's...

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so...

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so...

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Reason speaks and feeling bites

Reason speaks and feeling bites

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he...

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he...

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to...

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to...

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The wildest colts make the best horses.