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Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Confidence

Quotations & Citations:

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

You are a piece of the puzzle of someone else’s life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you.

~Bonnie Arbon

If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.

~ A.A. Milne

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.

~Sally Field

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.

~Author Unknown

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.

~William Shakespeare

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

~David Brinkley

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

~ Hanoch McCarty

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

~Roderick Thorp

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

~W.C. Fields

Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.

~Henry Ford

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.

~Allen H. Neuharth

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

~Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

~ Paulo Coelho

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

~Buckminster Fuller

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

~Wendy Wasserstein

Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.

~ Eoin Colfer

Success comes in cans, not cant’s.

~Author Unknown

Put your future in good hands — your own.

~Author Unknown

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

~John Bunyan

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

~Lauren Bacall

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.

~Shawn Purvis

I’m not old enough to play baseball or football. I’m not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I’ll just hit them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk.

~Edward J. McGrath, Jr

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

~Author Unknown

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

~Peter T. McIntyre

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

~Anaïs Nin

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

~Richard Bach

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

~Michael Jordan

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

~Edmund Hillary

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.
~Karen E. Quinones Miller

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.

~Mark Twain

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

~Bruce Barton

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

~Sydney Smith

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

~Virginia Woolf

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.

~Mary Kay Ash

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

~Norman Vincent Peale

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.

~Author Unknown

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~Pablo Picasso

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

~Paul Tillich

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

~Michel de Montaigne

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

~Henry David Thoreau

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

~Sally Kempton

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.

~Cecil Selig

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~Les Brown

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

~ John Lennon

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

~Dr. Seuss

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

~Richard Kline

Knock the “t” off the “can’t.”

~Samuel Johnson

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.

~Sophia Loren

A great man is always willing to be little.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

~Mignon McLaughlin

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

~Zig Ziglar

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities.

~Dodinsky

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

~ Michel de Montaigne

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

~Henrik Ibsen

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

~Robert Brault

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

~Truman Capote

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~Henry Stanley Haskins

The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet.

~Dodinsky

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

~ Jason Mraz

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

~Tyra Banks

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

~Thomas Edison

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

~Max L. Forman

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

~William Shakespeare

The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.

~Ellen Goodman

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

~Anaïs Nin

Never let the hand you hold, hold you down.

~Author Unknown

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

~William Hazlitt

Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

~Ram Dass

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

~Mignon McLaughlin

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

~Michel de Montaigne

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.

~Don Ward

Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

~Peter V. Brett

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.

~Paula Cole

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

~Andrew Carnegie

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

~Mignon McLaughlin

A gold medal is a nice thing — but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.

~From Cool Runnings

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs.

~Dan Zadra

If I am not for myself, who will be?

~Pirke Avoth

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

~Charles Dickens

Keep shining, beautiful one. The world needs your light.

~Author Unknown

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

~Robert Brault

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

~Anthony Powell

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

~Mignon McLaughlin

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.

~Henry David Thoreau

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

~Izaak Walton

Do not doubt the goodness in you. It is inappropriate.

~Dodinsky

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

~John Powell

[S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers….

~Veronica Shoffstall

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

~Epicurus

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~Louisa May Alcott

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

~Robert Brault

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

~Abraham–Hicks

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.

~Henry Miller

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

~Jean Sibelius

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people’s orchards.

~Mignon McLaughlin

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

~African Proverb

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.

~Author Unknown

Be proud to wear you.

~Dodinsky

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

~Serbian Saying

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

~Thomas à Kempis

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

~André Dubus

Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

~Francis Bacon

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

~Author Unknown

We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

~Olin Miller

As soon
Seek roses in December, ice in June;
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that’s false, before
You trust in critics.

~George Gordon

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

~Lou Holtz and John Heisler

[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

~George Santayana

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

~Montesquieu

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. “Dr. Holmes,” quipped a friend, “I should think you’d feel rather small among us big fellows.” “I do,” retorted Holmes, “I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies.”

~Author Unknown

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

~Sonya Friedman

We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life’s upheavals.

~Dodinsky

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

~E.F. Schumacher

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

~Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.

~Karen Ravn

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~Marianne Williamson, (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela)

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

~Gene Fowler

Quotes About Complaining

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Complaining

Quotations & Citations:

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

~ Maya Angelou

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

~Samuel Johnson

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

~Anthony J. D’Angelo

Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
~Lou Holtz

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.

~Bernard M. Baruch

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

~Robert Hugh Benson

Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem.

~ Paulo Coelho

One’s life must seem extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at!
~W.S. Gilbert

Don’t complain; just work harder.

~Randy Pausch

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

~Jane Wagner

Untold suffering seldom is.

~Franklin P. Jones

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

~William Osler

If you can quit, quit. If you can’t quit, stop complaining – this is what you chose.

~ J.A. Konrath

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.

~Author Unknown

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.

~Joe Walsh

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

~ Sigmund Freud

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

~Og Mandino

You could at least complain, I say. I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

~ Franny Billingsley

It is no use to grumble and complain;
It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain –
Why, rain’s my choice.

~James Whitcomb Riley

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

~ Evinda Lepins

Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

~Martin H. Fischer

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

~Randall Jarrell

That’s typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

~ Markus Zusak

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

~Antoine Rivarol

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

~Lord Jeffrey

People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.

~Will Rogers

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.

~Proverb

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids.

~Author Unknown

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

~Ronald Firbank

Quotes About Beauty

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Beauty

Quotations & Citations:

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

~ Markus Zusak

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

~Alice Walker

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

~George W. Russell

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.

~Author Unknown

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~Khalil Gibran

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

~ Anne Frank

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

~Tertullian

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

~Ninon de L’Enclos

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ~Ralph Ellison
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

~ John Green

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

~Martin Buxbaum

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Close your eyes and see the beauty.

~Author Unknown

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

~ Scott Westerfeld

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

~Leo Tolstoy

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

~Christopher Morley

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

~ Amy Bloom

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

~Simone Weil

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

~Logan Pearsall Smith

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.

~Author Unknown

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
~Rabindranath Tagore

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

~Chinese Proverb

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.

~Roseanne

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

~Dorothy Parker

I don’t like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

~Karl Lagerfeld

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.

~Anne Brontë

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

~Baltasar Gracián

May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend….

~William Butler Yeats

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

~Confucius

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.

~Author Unknown

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

~George Eliot

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

~ Franz Kafka

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

~Mary Oliver

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

~Edgar Allan Poe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

~Johann von Goethe

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
~Marcus Aurelius

The misconception with a lot of girls is that it takes two to three hours to be beautiful. I always tell girls allow yourself 30 minutes so that you can really enjoy the process, so that you can get to know you in the morning before the world gets to know you.

~Tracy Balan

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

~Karl Kraus

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

~John Ruskin

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

~ Anne Frank

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

~Florenz Ziegfeld

Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?

~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.

~Ninon de l’Enclos

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

~Robert Brault

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

~John Ruskin

Just because you’re beautiful and perfect, it’s made you conceited.
~William Goldman

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

~Mike Dolan

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

~Stendhal

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

~Gwyneth Paltrow

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.

~Dr. SunWolf

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.

~Rachel Carson

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

~Walt Whitman

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face….

~John Donne

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

~ Oscar Wilde

Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man “who was uglier than he had any business to be;” and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

~Alexander Smith

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

~Robert Brault

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone….

~Sam Levenson

Beauty… is the shadow of God on the universe.

~Gabriela Mistral

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

~ Virginia Woolf

Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart.

~Nate Dircks

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.

~Marie Stopes

Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude.

~Grey Livingston

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

~Pablo Picasso

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas?

~Jean Kerr

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

~Saint Augustine

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.

~Rosalind Russell

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

~George Bernard Shaw

Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

~Garrison Keillor

Quotes About Gratitude

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Gratitude

Quotations & Citations:

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~Marcel Proust

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

~Alfred Painter

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

~Author Unknown

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”

~William A. Ward

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

~H.U. Westermayer

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

~Thích Nhất Hạnh

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.

~G.B. Stern

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.

~Meister Eckhart

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

~Robert Brault

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

~Epicurus

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

~Jean Baptiste Massieu

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

~G.K. Chesterton

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

~John E. Southard

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.

~Kak Sri

If you have lived, take thankfully the past.

~John Dryden

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

~G.K. Chesterton

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

~G.K. Chesterton

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

~Maya Angelou

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.

~Frank A. Clark

The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

~Henry Ward Beecher

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.

~ Jacqueline Winspear

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

~Seneca

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

~George Colman

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

~Robert Quillen

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

~Epictetus

What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.

~Bertolt Brecht

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

~Steve Maraboli

Gratitude is the best attitude.

~Author Unknown

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

~W.T. Purkiser

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for… all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

~Will Carleton

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

~Thornton Wilder

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

~Meister Eckhart

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

~Edwin Arlington Robinson

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

~William Faulkner

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

~Neale Donald Walsch

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

~Maya Angelou

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.

~Gerald Good

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.

~Thomas Fuller

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

~Marianne Williamson

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

~ John F. Kennedy

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.

~Joseph Addison

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.

~Author Unknown

Whatever be the depth of woe
Along the path that I must go,
I’ll sing my song—
My song of joy for all the love
That’s lavished on us from above,
And count no loss of treasure-trove
When things go wrong.
I’ll sing the sunlight, and the bright
Soft smiling stars that gem the night;
For gifts of good
That God hath spread along my way,
The lilt of birds in tuneful play,
The harvests full and flowers gay,
The whole day long
I’ll sing my song
Of gratitude!

~John Kendrick Bangs

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

~Alphonse Karr

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

~Khalil Gibran

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

~Alice Walker

O Infinite Father, I’m grateful to Thee
For the moon and the stars and deep rolling sea;
For beauties of nature, where e’er they may be…
For the handclasp of friends, so firm and so true;
For sunrise and sunset and glistening dew;
The fleecy white clouds and the Heavens, so blue;
For these wonderful gifts, dear Lord, I thank you!

~Gertrude T. Buckingham

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
~James Herriot

Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.

~Abraham–Hicks

I feel a very unusual sensation — if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

~Benjamin Disraeli

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

~R.H. Blyth

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!
~Steve Maraboli

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

~Henry Clay

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

~Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

My socks may not match, but my feet are always warm.

~Maureen McCullough

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

~Estonian Proverb

Whatever Juice this sky will pour
this gaping parched old throat will drain;
What time the Harper harps I’ll dance:
’tis He, not I, who shall complain.
Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt,
yet I weep not nor even scold:
The sun is food enough for me,
‘t is large, and has not yet grown cold.

~Frederic Ridgely Torrence

All that we behold is full of blessings.

~William Wordsworth

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

~Neal A. Maxwell

Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, — a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

~George Herbert

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

~Eric Hoffer

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

~Henry Ward Beecher

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

~George Canning

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

~C.S. Lewis

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

~Cynthia Ozick

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

~Horace

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

~Stephen Hawking

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

~Robert South

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

~François de La Rochefoucauld

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
~Anthony Robbins

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

~Aldous Huxley

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

~Chinese Proverb

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.

~Ovid

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

~H.L. Mencken

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

~William Arthur Ward

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.

~Author Unknown

Quotes About Perseverance

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Perseverance

Quotations & Citations:

If you are going through hell, keep going.

~Winston S. Churchill

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

~Henry Ward Beecher

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.

~Author Unknown

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”

~Author Unknown

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

~Dale Carnegie

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

~Author Unknown

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
~Maya Angelou

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

~Josh Billings

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

~Author Unknown

Never, never, never give in!

~Winston S. Churchill

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

~Japanese Proverb

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

~Newt Gingrich

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

~Confucius

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

~Flavia Weedn

He conquers who endures.

~Persius

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

~Robert Brault

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

~Nelson Mandela

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

~Albert Einstein

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

~Walter Elliott

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

~Confucius

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

~G.B. Shaw

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

~Winston S. Churchill

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.

~Author Unknown

Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

~William Shakespeare

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

~Thomas A. Edison

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

~Lucretius

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

~Author Unknown

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

~Francis Bacon

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.

~Marilyn Monroe

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

~Buddhist Saying

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.

~Vivian Komori

You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

~Joe Namath

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

~Abraham Lincoln

The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead.

~Dodinsky

I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.

~Author Unknown

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

~Martin Luther

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.

~Zig Ziglar

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

~Charles F. Kettering

One may go a long way after one is tired.

~French Proverb

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

~Georges-Louis Leclerc

Pull yourself together and use what you have.

~Betsy Cañas Garmon

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

~Abraham Lincoln

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

~Robert Schuller

Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life.

~Dodinsky

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

~Elvis Presley

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

~Thomas Foxwell Buxton

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

~Robert Brault

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

~Author Unknown

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

~William James

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

~Winston S. Churchill

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.

~André A. Jackson

Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!

~Mehmet Murat ildan

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

~Earl Nightingale

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

~Antonio Porchia

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

~William Feather

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

~Christopher Morley

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

~Jacob A. Riis

Quotes About Patience

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Patience

Quotations & Citations:

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

~Dutch Proverb

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

~Paul Sweeney

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

~Mac McCleary

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

~ Molière

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.

~Author Unknown

Beware the fury of a patient man.

~John Dryden

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

~Paulo Coelho

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

~Lord Chesterfield

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

~Ambrose Bierce

He that can have patience can have what he will.

~Benjamin Franklin

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

~Franklin P. Jones

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

~George-Louis de Buffon

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

~Aristotle

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

~John Quincy Adams

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.

~Jarod Kintz

Have patience, my friend, have patience;
For Rome wasn’t built in a day!
You wear yourself out for nothing
In many and many a way!
Why are you nervous and fretty
When things do not move along fast;
Why let yourself get excited
Over things that will soon be past?

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

~Leo Tolstoy

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

~St. Augustine

Patience is also a form of action.

~Auguste Rodin

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

~Margaret Thatcher

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

~William Shakespeare

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

~John Milton

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

~Chinese Proverb

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

~Michel de Montaigne

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

~Hal Borland

Quotes About Goals

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Goals

Quotations & Citations:

Occasionally ask, “What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?”

~Robert Brault

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

~Henry Ford

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

~Les Brown

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

~Sidney Howard

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

~Lawrence J. Peter

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

~Samuel Johnson

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

~Doug Larson

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

~Diana Scharf Hunt

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

~T.S. Eliot

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

~Charles DeLint

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

~Arnold H. Glasow

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.

~Rita Mae Brown

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

~Douglas Adams

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

~Thomas Henry Huxley

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

~J.M. Power

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

~C.D. Jackson

Life’s problems wouldn’t be called “hurdles” if there wasn’t a way to get over them.

~Author Unknown

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

~Carl Bard

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

~Author Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

~Adolphe Monod

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

~Grant Frazier

Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes.

~Billboard Advertisement

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

~Woody Allen

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

~Eva Young

I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.

~Zig Ziglar

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

~Author Unknown

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?

~Anthony Robbins

Sometimes the path you’re on is not as important as the direction you’re heading.

~Kevin Smith

The impossible is often the untried.

~Jim Goodwin

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs.

~Vance Havner

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.

~Arnold Bennett

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

~Henry Ford

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

~Author Unknown

We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

~Robert Brault

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.

~Yoda

Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

~Mike Dolan

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

~Jack Penn

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

~Beverly Sills

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility.

~Dodinsky

If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.

~Mignon McLaughlin

Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

~Ringo Starr

Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hell! there ain’t no rules around here! We are tryin’ to accomplish somep’n!

~Albert Einstein

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

~Andre Gide

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.

~Isaac Asimov

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

~Sarah Ban Breathnach

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

~Bruce Feirstein

If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

~Author Unknown

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

~Henry David Thoreau

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

~George Bernard Shaw

There is one quality more important than “know-how” and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is “know-what” by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

~Norbert Wiener

I’m pretty sure it’s a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle.

~Jeb Dickerson

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

~Jack Dixon

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

~David Lloyd George

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you’re going.

~Robert Brault

Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.

~Author Unknown

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

~Zig Ziglar

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

~George Lucas

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

~Will Smith

Out of the strain of the doing,
Into the peace of the done.

~Julia Woodruff

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

~Jennifer Yane

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

~T.E. Lawrence

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

~Jon Bon Jovi

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

None of our men are “experts.” We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the “expert” state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

~Henry Ford, Sr.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

~Peter Drucker

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

~Author Unknown

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

~B. Zander

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

~Anthony J. D’Angelo

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

~Charles C. Noble

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

~Elbert Hubbard

We’re still not where we’re going, but we’re not where we were.

~Natasha Josefowitz

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

~John Dewey

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

~Pearl S. Buck

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

~George Bernard Shaw

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

~ Zig Ziglar

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

~Japanese Proverb

When the horse is dead, get off.

~Author Unknown

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

~Thomas Fuller

When people say to me: “How do you do so many things?” I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: “How do you do so little?” It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

~Philip Adams

Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.

~Doug Larson

Quotes About Friendship

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Friendship

Quotations & Citations:

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

~Albert Camus

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

~Douglas Pagels

Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

~Robert Brault

Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.

~Author Unknown

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

~Elbert Hubbard

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.

~Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

~Sicilian Proverb

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

~Aristotle

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

~Albert Schweitzer

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

~Arnold H. Glasgow

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

~Elbert Hubbard

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.

~Author Unknown

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

~Henry David Thoreau

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

~Bob Marley

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

~Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

~William Blake

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.

~Alfred Tennyson

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

~Pam Brown

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

~George Santayana

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

~Donna Roberts

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

~ Jane Austen

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

~Samuel Johnson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

~Dave Tyson Gentry

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.

~Laurence J. Peter

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

~Linda Grayson

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

~Grace Pulpit

One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

~D.H. Lawrence

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

~Jess C. Scott

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

~Rumi

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

~Dorothy Parker

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

~Virginia Woolf

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

~Sarah Dessen

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.

~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.

~Author Unknown

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

~Robert Brault

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

~Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

~Muhammad Ali

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

~Helen Keller

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.

~Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.

~Author Unknown

It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.

~Mignon McLaughlin

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

~Marlene Dietrich

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

~C.S. Lewis

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

~Toni Morrison

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

~Robert Brault

Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

~Plautus

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

~Irving Stone

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

~George MacDonald

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.

~Author Unknown

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?

~Emily Brontë

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.

~Robert Brault

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

~Robert Brault

The function of a friend is not to have a function.

~Detlef Cordes

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

~Abraham Lincoln

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.

~Abraham Lincoln

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don’t want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn’t bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.

~Jeanette Winterson

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

~John Leonard

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends stab you in the front.

~Oscar Wilde

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

~Rod McKuen

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

~William Shakespeare

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

~Epicurus

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

~Henri Nouwen

You always think you could have done more. That’s why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

~Robert Brault

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

~American Proverb

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

~William Blake

The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.

~Jay McInerney

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

~Heather Pryor

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else’s.

~Robert Brault

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

~George R.R. Martin

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.

~Mignon McLaughlin

A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

~L.M. Montgomery

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

~Shirley MacLaine

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

~Robert Brault

Friendship is Love, without his wings.

~Lord Byron

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

~Dinah Craik

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

~William Penn

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse.

~Dodinsky

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

~Thomas Jefferson

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

~Lois Wyse

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

~Ethel Barrymore

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

~Katherine Mansfield

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.

~Frances Ward Weller

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

~Robert Brault

It’s not how many friends you can count, it’s how many of those you can count on.

~Anthony Liccione

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

~Diana Cortes

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

~Euripides

Just what is a friend; do you ask of me?
I think it is one who will ever be
Loyal and loving, what e’er may betide;
One who will always stand close by our side
With faith and trust and a fond, cheery smile
Of understanding for us all the while;
One who is ready to give us a hand
As we struggle on through the shifting sands
Of time: an honest, sincere friend is one
Who will share our sorrows, our joys, our fun;
And we know in him we can ever trust
Till the time our bodies return to dust!

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.

~Author Unknown

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.

~Author Unknown

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

~E.W. Howe

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.

~Edith Wharton

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

~Robert Brault

’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

~Benjamin Franklin

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

~Author Unknown

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams.

~Henry David Thoreau

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

~Alice Duer Miller

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

~Anaïs Nin

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

~Eustache Deschamps

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

~Khalil Gibran

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

~Emil Ludwig

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

~Samuel Pepys

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

~Nigerian Proverb

Yes’m, old friends is always best, ’less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.

~Sarah Orne Jewett

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

~Blaise Pascal

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.

~Robert Brault

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

~Francesco Guicciardini

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

~Gwyneth Paltrow

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

~Mencius

Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

~Dag Hammarskjold

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

~Aristotle

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

~Thomas A. Edison

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

~Plutarch

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.

~David Storey

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

~William Hazlitt

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

~Somerset Maugham

Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there.

~Author Unknown

In my friend, I find a second self.

~Isabel Norton

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes About Forgiveness

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Forgiveness

Quotations & Citations:

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

~C.S. Lewis

Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

~Author Unknown

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

~Henry Ward Beecher

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

~ Steve Maraboli

Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.

~Dodinsky

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

~Marlene Dietrich

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

~Grace Hopper

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

~ Robert Jordan

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

~Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

~Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

~William Arthur Ward

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

~ Alexander Pope

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

~Paul Boese

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

~Robert Brault

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

~Edgar Watson Howe

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

~William Blake

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

~ Jane Austen

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

~Isaac Friedmann

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

~Harriet Nelson

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

~George Herbert

There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.

~Sydney Harris

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”

~ Oprah Winfrey

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

~Antonio Porchia

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

~Robert Brault

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

~Nathan Croall

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

~ Mark Twain

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

~Norman Cousins

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

~Robert Brault

What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.

~Mignon McLaughlin

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.

~Olin Miller

Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love’s power to break nature’s rule.

~Lewis B. Smedes

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

~Robert Brault

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

~John F. Kennedy

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

~Josh Billings

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

~Roberto Assagioli

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

~Franklin P. Jones

Forgive. It doesn’t erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

~Dodinsky

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

~E.H. Chapin

Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.

~Oscar Wilde

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

~C.S. Lewis

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

~Confucius

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

~Jon Krakauer

Quotes About Wisdom

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Wisdom

Quotations & Citations:

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

~Maurice Switzer (or Abraham Lincoln)

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

~Elbert Hubbard

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

~Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom begins at the end.

~Daniel Webster

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~William Shakespeare

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

~St. Augustine

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

~Doug Larson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

~David Star Jordan

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

~Mary Wilson Little

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

~Tom Wilson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

~Mark Twain

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

~Bill Veeck

The years teach much which the days never knew.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.

~Sara Teasdale

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

~Aristotle

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

~Juvenal

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

~Author Unknown

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

~John Buchan

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

~Socrates

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

~A.A. Hodge

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

~Author Unknown

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

~Chinese Proverb

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

~Norman Cousins

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

~James Gibbons Huneker

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

~George Santayana

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

~Doug Larson

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

~Tobias Smollett

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

~William Wordsworth

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

~William Cowper

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

~Sophocles

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.

~Lemuel K. Washburn

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

~Robert Brault

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

~East African Proverb

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

~John Lennon

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~William Shakespeare

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.

~Edward C. Steadman

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

~William James

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

~Bertolt Brecht

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

~Aristotle

Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that Wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the Wisdom is in the trees, some of the Wisdom is with the animals. Some of the Wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the Wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the Wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the Wisdom is in our minds. All of the Wisdom is from the Spirit of God.

~Esther Davis-Thompson

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

~Zen Proverb

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

~Josh Billings

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

~Robert Brault

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

~Mehmet Murat ildan

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

~Paulo Coelho

The child, offered the mother’s breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts
You’ll drink each day with greater zest.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

~Martin H. Fischer

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

~Herb Caen

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.

~Charles Dickens

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~Oprah Winfrey

No man was ever wise by chance.

~Seneca

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

~George Bernard Shaw