Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

You must do right before you feel good.

The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Reform must come from within and not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

Character is the result of two great forces: the initial force which the Creator gave it when He called the man into being; and the force of all the external influence and culture that mold and modify the development of a life.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.