Character Quotes

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry wins a battle hard to win.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.