တရုတ္ေတြးေခၚပညာရွင္ၾကီး ကြန္ျဖဴးရွပ္၏ ဆုိမိန္႔စကားမ်ား တစ္ခ်ိဳ႔
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
မင္းသာ ရပ္မေနခဲ႔ဘူးဆုိရင္ ဘယ္ေလာက္ပဲ ေႏွးေနွးသြားေပမယ္႔လည္း အေရးမၾကီးပါဘူး.
(ဒီစာေၾကာင္းေလးက ဘာေျပာခ်င္လဲဆုိေတာ႔ ကုိယ္ယုံၾကည္ရာကုိ လုပ္ေနတဲ႔အခါမွာ ခရီးေရာက္ခ်င္သေလာက္ ေပါက္ေျမာက္ခ်င္မွ ေပါက္ေျမာက္လိမ္႔မယ္. ဒါေပမယ္႔ စိတ္ဓာတ္ခြန္အားမက်ဘဲ သြားႏုိင္သေလာက္ ဆက္လက္သြားဖုိ႔က ပုိအေရးၾကီးတယ္လုိ႔ တုိက္တြန္းအားေပးထားတာပါ.)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔ရဲ႔ အၾကီးက်ယ္ဆုံး ေအာင္ျမင္မႈဟာ ဘယ္ေတာ႔မွ မက်ဆုံးတာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး. ရႈံးနိ္မ္႔တုိင္း ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ႏုိင္ျခင္းပါပဲ.
(ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက ထင္ၾကပါတယ္. ေအာင္ျမင္မႈေတြ ဆက္တုိက္ရေနမွ ေအာင္ျမင္တာလုိ႔. အမွန္တကယ္ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈက အျမဲတမ္း ေအာင္ႏုိင္ေနျခင္းထက္ ဘယ္ေလာက္ပဲ ရႈံးနိမ္႔က်ဆုံးပါေစ. မိမိဘ၀ကုိ ျပန္လည္ထူမတ္ႏုိင္ျခင္းပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိလုိျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္.)
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
သင္႔ကုိယ္သင္ ေလးစားမွ တစ္ျခားသူေတြက သင္႔ကုိ ေလးစားလိမ္႔မယ္.
(ဒီစာေၾကာင္းေလးကုိ ရုတ္တရက္ၾကည္႔လုိက္ရင္ သိပ္မထူးျခားသလုိ ခံစားရပါလိမ္႔မယ္. ဘာလုိ႔လဲဆုိေတာ႔ လူတုိင္းလုိလုိ ကုိယ္႔ကုိယ္ကုိ ေလးစားတယ္၊ ယုံၾကည္အားထားတယ္လုိ႔ ထင္မွတ္ယူေနတတ္ၾကလုိ႔ပါပဲ. ဒါေပမယ္႔ အမွန္တကယ္မွာေတာ႔ သူတုိ႔ဟာ ကုိယ္႔ကုိယ္ကုိ အမွန္တကယ္ ေလးစားႏုိင္ၾကျခင္း မရွိပါဘူး. ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ရဲ႔ လႊမ္းမုိးမႈေအာက္မွာ သူတုိ႔ေတြရဲ႔ ယုံၾကည္မႈေတြ အစမ္းသပ္မခံႏုိင္ၾကပါဘူး. ဒါေၾကာင္႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ဟာ တံျမက္စည္းလွည္းတဲ႔ အလုပ္ပင္ လုပ္ရပါေစ. မိ္မိကုိယ္ကုိ ေလးစားယုံၾကည္မႈရွိရင္ တစ္ျခားသူေတြကလည္း မိ္မိကုိ ေလးစားမႈ ျပန္ေပးပါလိမ္႔မယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိလုိပါတယ္. လက္ေတြ႔ဘ၀မွာ သူမ်ားေတြက ကုိယ္႔ကုိ ေလးစားရုိေသမႈ မျပဳခဲ႔ရင္ေတာင္ မိမိကုိယ္ကုိ ေလးစားယုံၾကည္မႈ ရွိေနသေရြ႔ မယုိင္လဲ မျပိဳပ်က္ႏုိင္ပါဘူး.)
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
အမွန္ကုိ သိျမင္ပါလ်က္နဲ႔ မလုိက္နာ မက်င္႔သုံးႏုိင္တာဟာ သတိၱနည္းေနေသးလုိ႔ပါပဲ.
(ဘယ္အရာဟာ အမွန္တရားဆုိတာကို သိပါလ်က္နဲ႔ လက္ေတြ႔ဘ၀မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ဟာ လဲြမွားတဲ႔ အတၱရဲ႔ ခုိင္းေစမႈေၾကာင္႔ အမွန္တရားနဲ႔ ေသြဖည္ရာကုိ ျပဳမူလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနမိတတ္ၾကပါတယ္. မိမိယုံၾကည္ရာ အမွန္တရားကုိ လုိက္နာႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ ခုိင္မာျပတ္သားတဲ႔ သတိၱဆုိတဲ႔ ကုိယ္ရည္ကုိယ္ေသြး လုိအပ္ပါတယ္.)
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
ကုိယ္ရည္ကုိယ္ေသြး၊ စိတ္ေနသေဘာထား ၾကီးက်ယ္ျမင္႔မားတဲ႔ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားဟာ အေျပာအဆုိ သိမ္ေမြ႔ႏွိမ္႔ခ်တတ္ၾကေပမယ္႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္မွာေတာ႔ အမ်ားတကာထက္ သာလြန္ပါတယ္.
(လူေျပာမသန္၊ လူသန္မေျပာလုိ႔ ျမန္မာစကားပုံမွာလည္း ရွိပါတယ္. ဆုိလုိတာက တကယ္ အလုပ္လုပ္တဲ႔သူဟာ စကားသိပ္မေျပာဘူး၊ စကားသိပ္ေျပာတဲ႔သူဟာ အလုပ္တကယ္ မလုပ္ဘူးလုိ႔ နားလည္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္)
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
မိမိကုိ မျပဳမူေစလုိတဲ႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္၊ အေျပာအဆုိမ်ားကုိ တစ္ပါးသူအေပၚမွာလည္း မက်င္႔သုံး မေျပာဆုိမိပါေစႏွင္႔.
(ကုိယ္ခ်င္းစာတရား လက္ကုိင္ထားျခင္းဟာ လူမႈဆက္ဆံေရး ေအာင္ျမင္မႈအတြက္ အေျခခံ အက်ဆုံးပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္.)
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
ၾကီးက်ယ္ျမင္႔ျမတ္တဲ႔ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားဟာ အေျပာထက္ အလုပ္ကို ဦးစားေပးပါတယ္. သူလုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ႔ျပီးသမွ်ကုိသာ ျပန္ေျပာေလ႔ ရွိပါတယ္.
(တကယ္အလုပ္လုပ္တဲ႔သူဟာ ၾကြားလုံးေတြ ထုတ္မေနတတ္ၾကပါဘူး. ဟန္ပန္ေတြလည္း မ်ားမေနတတ္ၾကပါဘူး. လုပ္စရာရွိတာကုိလုပ္ျပီး လုိသေလာက္ပဲ ေျပာတတ္ၾကပါတယ္. ကုိယ္ဘာလုပ္ျပီးျပီ ဆုိတာကုိပဲ ျပန္ေျပာတတ္ၾကပါတယ္. မလုပ္ရေသးတာကုိ ဟိတ္ဟန္ထုတ္ျပီး မစားရ၀ခမန္း လူအထင္ၾကီးေအာင္ မေျပာတတ္ၾကပါဘူး.)
Chinese philosopher & reformer [more author details]
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- Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius
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- Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
- Confucius
- Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
- Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Confucius
- He who will not economize will have to agonize.
- Confucius
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius
- Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
- Confucius
- It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius
- Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
- Confucius
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius
- Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- Confucius
- Study the past if you would define the future.
- Confucius
- The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
- Confucius
- To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
- Confucius
- To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
- Confucius
- To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
- Confucius
- What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
- Confucius
- When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Confucius
- When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
- Confucius
- Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
- They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius, Analects
- By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects
- How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
- William Shakespeare
- How use doth breed a habit in a man.
- William Shakespeare
- I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
- William Shakespeare
- I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
- William Shakespeare
- I dote on his very absence.
- William Shakespeare
- I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare
- I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood. - William Shakespeare
- I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. - William Shakespeare
- I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare
- I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
- William Shakespeare
- I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare
- I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. - William Shakespeare
- Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare
- In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
- William Shakespeare
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
- William Shakespeare
- In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Indian political and spiritual leader [more author details]
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- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Hate the sin, love the sinner.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
- An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
- Mahatma Gandhi, 1931
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
16th president of US [more author details]
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- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
- Abraham Lincoln
- He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
- I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
- I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
- If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln
- If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
- No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
- When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
- When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln
- You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
- 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
- When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
