The best Quotes by Heraclitus

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Character

There is nothing permanent except change.

Universe Change

You might like these Quotes aswell

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

Tim Duncan

Ambition

My dad always told me, "I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner."

Bruce Dickinson

Ambition

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!

Happiness Dancing Sun Rain

Eternal sunshine creates deserts.

Arabian Saying

Sun Deserts

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Ambition Character Birds

Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Democritus

Universe

When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders.

Wish

Universe

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

John Wheeler

Universe Meaning

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa

Change

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

Marv Levy

Change

Simba: "Looks like the winds are changing."
Rafiki: "Change is good."
Simba: "Yeah, but it's not easy."

Simba in The Lion King

Change

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Garden Libraries

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memories Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Failures & Mistakes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness Present

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness Minutes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature & Environment Patience & Endurance

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Lies

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Humanity Death

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

Hatred

Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

Appearance

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle

Snow Winter Coldness

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

Light Motivation

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music

To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love Letters

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Foolishness Quotes to think about

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

Plato

Playing

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Plato

Learning

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

The best Quotes by Heraclitus

You might like these Quotes aswell

Related pages to Heraclitus