Mahamd Elfeky > Mahamd's Quotes

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
― Confucius, Analects Of Confucius

“When the wind blows,the grass bends.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
― Confucius, The Analects of Confucius

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
― Confucius, The Analects of Confucius

“Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?”
― Confucius, The Analects

“To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“كان الحسن البصري يقول : ما سمعت الحجاج يخطب إلّا وظننت أن أهل العراق يظلمونه ”
― هادي العلوي, من تاريخ التعذيب في الإسلام

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“So many great nobles, things, administrations,
so many high chieftains, so many brave nations,
so many proud princes, and power so splendid;
In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended.”
― Jacobus de Benedictus

“A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but still I loved life. This ridiculous foible is perhaps one of our most fatal characteristics; for is there anything more absurd than to wish to carry continually a burden which one can always throw down? to detest existence and yet to cling to one's existence? in brief, to caress the serpent which devours us, till he has eaten our very heart?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations