The test of any man lies in action.
—Pindar
Topics: Secrets of Success, Action
Learn what you are and be such.
—Pindar
Topics: Being Ourselves, Realization, Self-Knowledge, Acceptance, Awareness, Self-love
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
—Pindar
Topics: Wisdom
Time, in the turning-over of days, works change for better or worse.
—Pindar
Topics: Patience, Resilience, Change
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
—Pindar
Topics: Men
The present will not long endure.
—Pindar
Topics: Difficulty
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
—Pindar
Topics: Truth
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
—Pindar
Topics: Beauty
Skills vary with the man. We must … strive by that which is born in us.
—Pindar
Topics: Work, Talents, Abilities
Custom is the universal sovereign.
—Pindar
Topics: Custom
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
—Pindar
Topics: Affection, Gift, Gifts
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
—Pindar
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future. Hanging impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
—Pindar
Topics: Acceptance
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
—Pindar
Topics: Aging, Age
May God … let me strive for attainable things.
—Pindar
Topics: Awareness, Acceptance, Realization, Realistic Expectations, Expectations
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