Aesop Quotes
"Put your shoulder to the wheel."
- Aesop
"Plodding wins the race."
- Aesop
(Related: Race)
"Please all, and you will please none."
- Aesop
(Related: Will)
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."
- Aesop
(Related: Force, Persuasion)
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
- Aesop
(Related: Trust, Advice, Difficulties, Man)
"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
- Aesop
(Related: People)
"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety."
- Aesop
(Related: Cause, Safety)
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
(Related: Act, Kindness)
"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing."
- Aesop
(Related: Men, Imitation)
"United we stand, divided we fall."
- Aesop
(Related: United)
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."
- Aesop
(Related: Fire, Water)
"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction."
- Aesop
(Related: Destruction, May, Self)
"Slow but steady wins the race."
- Aesop
(Related: Race)
"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."
- Aesop
(Related: Wishes)
"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."
- Aesop
(Related: Appearance, Mind)
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
(Related: Office, Public)
"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."
- Aesop
(Related: Comfort)
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
- Aesop
(Related: Conceit, Mind)
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
- Aesop
(Related: Force, Wind)
"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
(Related: Imagination, Success, Act, Kindness)
"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."
- Aesop
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."
- Aesop
(Related: Content, First)
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
- Aesop
(Related: Today, Tomorrow)
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
- Aesop
(Related: Destruction, Enemies)
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
- Aesop
(Related: Peace, Anxiety)
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
- Aesop
(Related: Shadow)
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
- Aesop
(Related: Birds)
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
- Aesop
"Appearances are often deceiving."
- Aesop
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
- Aesop
(Related: Will)
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
- Aesop
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
- Aesop
(Related: Prudence)
"Adventure is worthwhile."
- Aesop
(Related: Adventure)
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."
- Aesop
(Related: Friend, Enemy, Man)
"The gods help them that help themselves."
- Aesop
(Related: Gods, Help)
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
- Aesop
(Related: Shadow)
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."
- Aesop
(Related: Evil, Ruin, Will)
"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another."
- Aesop
(Related: Will)
"It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray."
- Aesop
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."
- Aesop
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
- Aesop
(Related: Truth, Will)
"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs."
- Aesop
(Related: Men, Will)
"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."
- Aesop
"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
- Aesop
(Related: End, Principles, Will)
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
- Aesop
(Related: Gratitude)
"Familiarity breeds contempt."
- Aesop
(Related: Contempt, Familiarity)
"Example is the best precept."
- Aesop
(Related: Example)
"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."
- Aesop
(Related: Truth)
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."
- Aesop
(Related: Truth, Character, Values)
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
- Aesop
(Related: May)