If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. Leo Tolstoy quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ― Leo Tolstoy.

Russian author Leo Tolstoy is considered a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists, especially known for Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, he explored the most diverse approaches to human experience.

1. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ― Leo Tolstoy

2. If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. ― Leo Tolstoy

3. The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience. Patience is waiting.

Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow that is patience.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ― Leo Tolstoy

4. It is amazing how complete the delusion that beauty is goodness. ― Leo Tolstoy

5. I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts. ― Leo Tolstoy 

6. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. ― Leo Tolstoy

7. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ― Leo Tolstoy

8. Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. ― Leo Tolstoy

9. If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. ― Leo Tolstoy

10. Spring is the time of plans and projects. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. ― Leo Tolstoy 

11. I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. ― Leo Tolstoy

12. Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. ― Leo Tolstoy

13. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. ― Leo Tolstoy

14. All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. ― Leo Tolstoy

15. Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand. ― Leo Tolstoyo 

16. Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. ― Leo Tolstoy

17. All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class herself alone had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity. ― Leo Tolstoy

18. If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life. ― Leo Tolstoy

19. Perhaps it’s because I appreciate all I have so much that I don’t worry about what I haven’t got. ― Leo Tolstoy

20. Don’t anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ― Benjamin Franklin 

21. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. ― Leo Tolstoy

22. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ― Coco Chanel

23. Don’t let anyone speak for you, and do not rely on others to fight for you. — Michelle Obama

24. Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement. — Tony Robbins

25. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. — Albert Camus

26. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. — Cherry Nguyen