If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Wisdom Quotes
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
— Aesop
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
— Aesop
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
— Ayn Rand
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.
All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
— Jim Rohn
You cannot have what you do not want.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
— Laozi
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
You can't choose up sides on a round world.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life.
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
True friends stab you in the front.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
— Laozi
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
— Colette
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
— Rumi
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
— Jerome
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
— Ovid
To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.
To fly, we have to have resistance.
— Maya Lin
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
— Plato
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
You have to believe in yourself.
— Sun Tzu
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.