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Age Quotes - Page 213

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.261, Ballantine Books

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.78, Harvard University Press

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.271, Penguin

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

"Trinummus". Play by Plautus, Act II, sc. 2, line 88,

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

Part of courage is simple consistency.

"SC chair: Conservatism thrives" by Katon Dawson, www.politico.com. November 28, 2008.