Tag: Wise Quotes

You can be happy where you are

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santayana

“The greatest chapters in history always begin with risk, and the same is true with the chapters of your life.” – Mark Batterson

“Sadly, we are too often a destination-obsessed people. We are so motivated by accomplishment that it’s almost impossible for us to have a context for life outside of what we get done.” – Brian Hardin

“A man doesn’t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.” –  Richard E. Byrd

“The ability to communicate fluidly and effectively is more than just a skill that one develops over time. It is a combination of skill, and wisdom, and the ability to connect to the perception of another that will allow them to see things the way you do and follow along with your will.” – Gerald Campbell

“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“It will be the toughest thing you’ll ever do, but your heart is never wrong.” – Maxime Lagacé 

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” – Miguel de Cervantes

“You are the person you have been waiting for.” – Joe Dispenza 

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” – Aristotle

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“You can be happy where you are.” – Joel Osteen

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” – Napoleon Hill

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Friedrich Engels

“They can because they think they can.” – Virgil

“Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil

“Life begins on the other side of despair.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

Seek life

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote

“A kind person is very wise, because they – consciously or unconsciously – have realised what it is all about: that what we do to our fellows, we also do to ourselves.” – Stefan Einhorn

“A good friend is precious, even more precious is a wise good friend” – V. Ashiedu

“No matter how bad we might think the world is, in my experience the vast majority of us want to rub along with our fellow men and very often buried beneath a gruff exterior, there is a generous sprit waiting to be revealed.” – Tony Clark

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” – Mother Teresa

“When you’re dealing with people who are offensive and irritating, you need to look past their behavior to their pain. When people are hurting others, it’s because they’re hurting on the inside” –  Rick Warren

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare 

“Paths are made by walking.” – Franz Kafka

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Unknown 

“Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.” – Naval Ravikant 

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde 

“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” – Billy Graham

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose–somehow we win out.” – Ronald Reagan

“Either get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King

“You change the world by being yourself.” – Yoko Ono

“The only way round is through.” – Robert Frost

“Seek life, not comfort.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again.” – Jack Kerouac

“Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.” – Horace

Some people are so poor

“The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.” – Buddha

“Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.” – Vanessa Paradis 

“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” – Margaret Mead

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.” – Baltasar Gracian

“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” – Jack Kerouac

“Every next level of your life will demand a different you.” 

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King 

“Little by little, one travels far.” – J. R. R. Tolkien 

“I exist as I am, that is enough.” – Walt Whitman 

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” -Vivian Komori

“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery–there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” – Rick Warren

“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” – Henry Ford

“You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.” – Jim Rohn

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.” – Naval Ravikant 

“If you can imagine it, we can make it.” – John Dykstra

The most difficult thing is the decision to act

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Cicero

“You have to be a good individual first before you can be a good team player.” – David Goggins

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.” – David Ogilvy

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” – Gautama Buddha

“Words only go so far, we must live our message. Our true wisdom is displayed through our actions.”

“Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.” – Bob Dylan

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.​​”​ – Gloria Steinem

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

“Remember: nobody said it would be easy.” – Maxime Lagacé

“The goal is to create something so useful that people will have no choice but to tell their friends.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney: 

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

Life is a reality to be experienced

“Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.” – Carlos Santana

“If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.” – Mary Douglas

“You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.” – Colin Powell

“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” – Euripides

“You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.” – Napoleon Hill

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“When I let go of who I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

“When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks​

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” – Albert Camus

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John C. Maxwell

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” – Wayne Dyer

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

Keep love in your heart

“As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.” – Amber Riley

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” – Rudyard Kipling

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.” – William Faulkner

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” – William Blake

“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”​ – Francis Bacon

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.” – Edwin Land

“Start with you. Start where you are. Changing the world is an exciting idea. Changing yourself makes it possible.”

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Everything you do and have done has gotten you closer to who you really are and who you aspire to be. So in essence, even if you disagree with what you have done, it was never time wasted.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” – Oscar Wilde

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” – Carl Jung

To do a dull thing with style

Wise quotes Love and work Work and love That is all there is Aylake
Wise quotes Love and work Work and love That is all there is Aylake

“Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.” – Gertrude Stein

“There is a quiet place where no one disturbs you.” – Marlene Dietrich

“Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.” – Sigmund Freud

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus

Wise quotes To do a dull thing with style Aylake
Wise quotes To do a dull thing with style Aylake

“To do a dull thing with style – now that’s what I call art.” – Charles Bukowski

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“To have external success, start with internal success.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

Wise quotes Before you pour your love into someone else fill yourself up first Aylake
Wise quotes Before you pour your love into someone else fill yourself up first Aylake

“You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Gautama Buddha

“Before you pour your love into someone else, fill yourself up first.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” –  Rumi

Wise quotes Owning our story and loving ourselves is the bravest thing that we will ever do Aylake
Wise quotes Owning our story and loving ourselves is the bravest thing that we will ever do Aylake

“If you want to be loved, be lovable.” – Ovid

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

“Owning our story and loving ourselves is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau

Wise quotes There are no mistakes only opportunities Aylake
Wise quotes There are no mistakes only opportunities Aylake

“Miracles happen every day. Change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.”​ – Jon Bon Jovi

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” – Tina Fey

“Earn with your mind, not your time.” – Naval Ravikant

Love yourself first

Wise quotes A loving heart is the truest wisdom Aylake
Wise quotes A loving heart is the truest wisdom Aylake

“Love is dynamic, ever changing and all over the place all the time. Only those who transcend themselves know this.” – Maxime Lagacé

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” – Marcel Proust

Wise quotes We need not think alike to love alike Aylake
Wise quotes We need not think alike to love alike Aylake

“Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

“When you’re not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.” – Larry David

“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” – William James

“We need not think alike to love alike.”​ – Francis David

Wise quotes If you do not stand for something yo will fall for anything Aylake
Wise quotes If you do not stand for something yo will fall for anything Aylake

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” – Malcolm X

“Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward.” – Hillary Clinton

Wise quotes There are three constants in life Aylake
Wise quotes There are three constants in life Aylake

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama

“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” – Stephen Covey

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton

Wise quotes Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated Aylake
Wise quotes Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated Aylake

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius