The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.
Dr. Seuss
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
Amelia Earhart
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Lewis Carroll
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
Lucille Ball
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
Satchel Paige
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
Slow and steady wins the race.
Robert Lloyd
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut, that held its ground.
David Icke
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Marlo Thomas
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Max de Pree
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
Harvey Mackay
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
George C. Marshall
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
John D. Rockefeller
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Ezra Taft Benson
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath
Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
William Temple
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
