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"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

Family, Children, Living

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

Love, Work, Temple, Joy

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."

Wisdom, Grave

"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."

People, Drinking, Spring, Water

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Dream, Memory, Today, Tomorrow

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

Love, Beauty, Truth, Kings

"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

Wisdom, Road

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

Life, Children, Daughters, Longing

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

Attitude, Life, Living, Mind

"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

Zeal,

Exlpore more Trust quotes

"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Trust, Silence

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

Stephen King, American Author

Trust,

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Trust, Confidence, Respect, President

"He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Trust, Will

"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Trust, Man, Property, Public

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Trust, Planning, Thinking

"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Trust, Power, People, Exercise

"I trust no one, not even myself."

Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

Trust,

"Trust, but verify."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Trust,

"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Trust, Suspicion