Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
~ Sophocles - [Self-reliance]

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
~ Sophocles - [Speakers and Speaking]

Success, remember is the reward of toil.
~ Sophocles - [Success]

There is no success without hardship.
~ Sophocles - [Success]

Truth is always the strongest argument.
~ Sophocles - [Truth]

Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
~ Sophocles - [Possibilities]

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
~ Sophocles - [Prosperity]

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
~ Sophocles - [Proverbs]

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
~ Sophocles - [Purpose]

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
~ Sophocles - [Reason]

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
~ Sophocles - [Judgment and Judges]

Kindness gives birth to kindness.
~ Sophocles - [Kindness]

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~ Sophocles - [Kindness]

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
~ Sophocles - [Knowledge]

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
~ Sophocles - [Leaders and Leadership]

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
~ Sophocles - [Life and Living]

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
~ Sophocles - [Love]

None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
~ Sophocles - [News]

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
~ Sophocles - [Failure]

To him who is in fear everything rustles.
~ Sophocles - [Fear]