Wise Quotes & Sayings | Quotes for Insight & Guidance - Page 3

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
– Confucius

Opportunities will knock on your door but temptation will lean on the door bell.

Yesterday I was intelligent, so I tried to change the world but today I am wise, so I’m trying to change myself.

“If An Egg Breaks Due to OUTSIDE Force! “Inside Life Ends!” But… If it Breaks from inside! “Life Begins!” “GREAT Things Always Begin from Inside! So try to make your inside GOOD! …. !!”

Perfection and power are overrated.
It is wise to choose happiness and love.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. Don’t let this happen to you!

Your first instinct is usually right.

Choose the non-emotional response to any given situation and see how much easier your life becomes.
– Naval Ravikant

Life is like a dream, sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad, but in the end it is over.

Age brings Wisdom with little time to use it.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
– Steven Wright

Never make your decisions based on assumptions.

What an old person can see while sitting, a young person may not see even when he stands on a tree on a mountain top.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
– Oscar Wilde

Don’t look back, you are not going that way.

When an adult trips, he turns to watch what caused it; when a minor trips, he turns to watch who is around.

If you want to stand out, don’t be different; Be outstanding.

Don’t bit the hand that feeds you.

Wisdom is earned, not given. When other people give us the answer, it belongs to them and not us. While we might achieve the outcome we desire, it comes from dependence, not insight. Instead of thinking for ourselves, we’re dependent on the insight of others.
– Shane Parrish

A person who thinks he knows everything can not learn anything new.

A wise man thinks for himself a fool let others speak for him.
A Fool Follows Others But A Wise Man Lets Others Follow Him.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… Uh… Er… Look I aint gonna be fooled again!
– Our beloved president, George Bush

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
– William Shakespeare

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
– Samuel Johnson

You win when you choose and decide with prudence, common sense and wisdom.
– Dr T.P.Chia

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.
– Paulo Coelho

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Know who your with because if you stand by a dumpster long enough your eventually going to smell like it…

Don’t Hope For Change, Make The Change You Hope For.

Many tears in the heart never reach the eyes.
No individual rain drop is responsible for the flood.
It’s not about how many cards you have it’s about how you play them.
It is better to fail with a heart, then succeed by fraud.

The easiest job in this world is to find faults in others.

The rich man’s grave is not richer than that of the poor man.

You only see the obstacles, when you take your eyes of the prize!

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you. (Maori proverb)

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
– Aristotle

What’s meant to be.. Will always find its way!

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

Ask what you can control and what you cannot control. Ask what you should do and what you should not do.
– Dr T.P.Chia

One of the most difficult things in the world is to learn to take a hint easily.

Temptations will come: But don’t ever offer the Devil a ride – cos he will always want to drive.

Don’t do stupid things to prove yourself, You will only end up hurt and embarrassed.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
– Victor Hugo

Some men see things as they are and say “why.” I dream things that never were and say “why not.
– Robert F. Kennedy

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
– Aishwarya Rai

The mind sees what it want to see or is afraid of seeing.

Success means having the courage, the wisdom and the determination to become the person you are meant to be.
Live life as if your the only one in it, and have fun.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
– Andrew Ryan
Time spent waiting is time well wasted.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
– Malala Yousafzai

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– Carl Jung

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.
– Yoko Ono

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
– Socrates

If a tree wants to remain unbroken, it must learn to bend to the winds.

The strong beat the weak and the wise beat the strong.

Listen if you want to learn. Talk if you don’t.

Dreams may be endless but dreamless will be the end.

Knowledge only becomes power when it is put into use.

Fooling a wise man is wisdom, fooling a fool is foolishness.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
– Socrates

The secret of human power lies in the mind and the thoughts it produces.
– Dr T.P.Chia

We make our choices, then our choices make us.

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear view mirror.

If i love myself despite my infinite faults, how can i hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults.
– Swami Vivekananda

The strongest man is not afraid to admit he is wrong.

When the opinions of others do not matter you have truly mastered yourself.

Action is character. If we never did anything, we wouldn’t be anybody.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
– Kahlil Gibran

To generalize is to be an idiot.
– William Blake

Never live how others want you to. Each one of us have lived different than the next. Dreams come true with work and not giving up. Friends come and go. True friends love and support like family. True love comes once in a lifetime.

Losers make excuses, Winners make it happen!

Something is not always better than nothing. Sometimes nothing is better than something.
– Dr T.P.Chia

The sun is always shining, it just depends upon which side of the clouds you are on.

The true measure of a man is in the actions he takes when the whole world is against him.

The real measure of a man’s worth is how much he is worth if he lost all his money.

You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry.

There’s always someone worse off than you. So count your blessings!

People’s character is not judged by what they say are. It’s judged by their actions. You can say a lot but your deeds have the final say.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
– Edward Everett Hale

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can be very wild and still be very wise.
– Yoko Ono

I should keep my words soft and sweet in case I have to eat them.

The rotten apple spoils his companions.

Never let them know how you feel or what you are thinking, cos if they know what you feel and what’s on your mind, they know how to hurt you and if they hurt you once, they will try it again.

It feels a lot better when strangers randomly compliment you than when one of your friends does.

What we desire or want does not always turn out to be good for ourselves.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Stupidity refuses to listen when wisdom speaks. Intelligence listens attentively when wisdom speaks.
– Dr T.P.Chia

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
– Marv Levy

If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Never cry for the ones that don’t deserve your tears.

Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

He who can, does. He who can’t, teaches.
– George Bernard Shaw

I don’t wear the opinions of others anymore, I learnt to dress myself.
– Nikki Rowe

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark and it survived the great storm and also professionals built the titanic and sank in the ocean.

The greatest test of courage is to bear the defeat without losing heart.:)

Tough times may last long.. Tough people last longer.

Sometimes we have to stand alone just to make sure that we still can.

Thought is the sleeping giant of the mind. The world belongs to those who wake up this sleeping giant.
– Dr T.P.Chia

The only person that can keep you from reaching your goals is you yourself.

Pray for the best and prepare for the worst.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
– Thomas Carlyle

Most people judge others by their actions, and themselves by their intentions.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
– Henry Ford

If you find your friend or neighbors have a successful life, don’t look on the negative side and don’t let them down.
Instead, look up and learn from them, how they reached success.
Sooner you will see yourself on the same level, being successful one.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
– Zig Ziglar

There is a difference between being stubborn and standing for what you believe in.

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
– Ron Wild

If the thought of your future makes you sad…then stop dreaming and start acting

I don’t forgive people because I’m weak I forgive them because I’m smart enough to know people make mistakes.:)

You don’t want to gain the whole world and lose you soul.
Wisdom is better then silver and gold.

Your actions are your results.

Don’t listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen to people who encourage you to do what you know in your heart in right.

Don’t tell people how hard you work, tell them how much you get done.

A greedy man and an angry woman have never lived prosperously.
– Rajinikanth

If you’re not enough without the medal, you’ll never be enough with it.
– Cool Runnings

You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.
– Oprah Winfrey

You become what you do most of the time.
– Tony Robbins

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education, than to have education without common sense…

Words cut deeper than knives.

If you lay down with pigs, you’re going to get muddy.

It’s time people shut up swallow their pride and admit their mistakes, it’s not giving up it’s growing up.

Those that talk down to you are just trying to walk tall by making you feel small. Rise above.

Anyone who tries to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

If you want something to be done, do it yourself.

A foolish man stumbles and falls. A wise man is a fool who stumbled, fell, then stood and stumbled no more.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
– African Proverb

Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
– Chetan Bhagat

Wisdom begins in wonder.
– Socrates

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
– Thomas Jefferson

Dreamers look up,
Doubters look down,
Realists look ahead.

First you make your habits… Then your habits make you.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don’t let somebody else tell you who you are.
– Tatiana Maslany

When the paper’s crumbled up it can’t be perfect again.

A dwarf that stands on the shoulders of a giant sees farther than the giant himself.’

Be nice to your kids… They’ll be the ones choosing your nursing home.

The source of our greatest joy, can be the source of our deepest sorrow.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
– Paulo Coelho

They have to be clever, cunning, imaginative, dogged and wily, whereas society merely has to lean its weight a little.

Everything in this world is temporary, if you think you have it all, you’re wrong.

Asking for help does not mean you are weak or incompetent. It means quite the opposite. You have to be strong, confident and intelligent enough to realize when you need help and courageous enough to ask for it.

Think from heart and act from brain.

Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
– Epictetus

Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.
– Buddha

It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
– Queen Elizabeth II

Even if yours eyes are wide open, they can still be closed.
Even if you can hear doesn’t mean you’ll always listen.

The more a man talks, the less he knows.

Don’t trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you.

Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
– Plato

If god brings you to it, he’ll bring you through it.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.
– David Frost

Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t study history, make history.

Expecting everyone around you to love you simply because you are good is like expecting a bull not to attack a man because he is a vegetarian!!

There is truth to every lie, the hard part is figuring out which part that is.

The people who are crazy enough to try to change the world are the ones that do.

We’re not held accountable for our actions, only for our intentions.

Just because someone’s a hypocrite doesn’t mean you should be ignorant…They could be right.

The light is much brighter after coming out of the darkness.
A failure is someone who doesnt try.
Critisizm is a never ending war.
(Sam Riddle age 14)

Don’t go that extra mile for someone who isn’t even worth the run.

Be the type of person you want to meet.

Beware of still water,
Beware of the silent man,
Beware of the dog that does not bark.

Those who never settle for anything but the best, very often get it.

What you seek is seeking you.
– Rumi

What you allow is what will continue.

When you’re young, you spend a lot of time being self- conscious about what people think of you. Then you get older and you start to realize they weren’t really thinking about you that much.
– Ewan McGregor

Results are awarded, not the efforts.

7 short rules for a better life:

1. Wake up early
2. Don’t watch the news
3. Listen more than you speak
4. Don’t suffer imagined troubles
5. Think progress, not perfection
6. Strict with yourself, tolerant with others
7. See opportunities where others see obstacles

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It’s cool to find out that you don’t need a boyfriend to be happy.
– Drew Barrymore

Too many people buy things they don’t need, with money they don’t have, to impress people they don’t like.

I care more about my character than my reputation. My Reputation is what people think about me, but my character is who I am.

You know when you’re successful, when people who don’t know you, hate you.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
– Albert Einstein

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
– Henri Bergson

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
– Lao Tzu

To know someone is to know how they think

If I rest, I rust.

You can make money, you can lose it all, you can get it all back, but you can never get back time

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

You will never be happy with yourself if you keep doing others wrong.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you make.

When snow melts what does it become?
A foolish man: Water of course.
A wise man: It becomes spring.

Don’t be quick to answer and look at the bigger picture.

You can love like a sinner and lose like a winner, nothing’s shatterproof you can crash and burn and come back someone new.

The time is always right to do what is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Things go great when you concentrate but go further when you have fun.

The world always has, is and always will be, full of QUALIFIED idiots and UNQUALIFIED geniuses.

If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.
– Irish Proverb

The wise man says knowledge, wisdom is for all but the foolish says these all are mine.

The wise listen more than he speaks.

Without the bitter, the sweet isn’t as sweet.

I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
– Chinese Proverb

The best of speech is that characterized by brevity and sagacity.
(Translated from an Arabic saying)
– Boghos L. Artinian

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do, the hard part is doing it.

Wealth is from the heart and mind and not the pocket.
– Billionaire Boys Club

The best way to learn is to teach.

Besides education, knowledge or life experience, all wise men possess a high degree of spiritual and emotional intelligence.
– Dr T.P.Chia

I’m only responsible for what I say, not responsible for what you hear.

Don’t think that if you do the right thing it won’t make a difference in the world just because everybody else is doing the wrong thing because they think the same thing as you. If each and every one of them said to themselves that they CAN make a difference in the world, they WILL:
1+1+1+1…= Alot.
A little change + a little change + a little change…= A BIG change.

Those who spread slander are normally describing what type of character they are.

Don’t blame others for what they did to you. But blame yourself for giving them the chance.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.
– Corita Kent

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
– Albert Camus

You don’t need to be tall to see the moon.

A good ending doesn’t require a good beginning.

Character is doing what is right when no one is watching you.

Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind’s creativity.

You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
– Hunter S. Thompson

Be of use, but don’t be used.

Always prepared for the ‘what if’ to avoid encountering the ‘now what’.
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything they have, never taking it for granted…
One of the hardest choices to make is between what’s RIGHT and what’s EASY; I choose what’s in my heart…

Respect can’t be found when you seek it for yourself, but when you give it to others, you will see that it will find its way back to you.

In 30 years, it won’t matter what shoes you wore or what jeans you got. What will matter is what you learned and how you used it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
– George Sand

The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
– Japanese Proverb

You can never explain emotions or understand inspirations.

Life is not a game, you can never start over.
Truth hurts if you are afraid of the pain.
Our own tongue is our worst enemy.

What goes around – Comes around three folds.
Whether it’s a good or bad feeling – It’s only a temporary feeling.

Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.

Living well means spending more time on things that matter. Living poorly means spending more time on things that don’t matter. Wisdom is knowing the difference.
– Mark Manson

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

The dog who barks never take action, the dog who take action never barks.

I am a man of my actions not of my words.

You are the best judge for yourself.

Those who look in the mirror are looking for something that looks can’t tell them

Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who think about it or do it after it’s been done.

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

People can always see a difference if you do something different from others.
In other words, you won’t be seen or noticed for doing what others already have done.

The day we stand up for what we believe, the day we speak when everyone else is quiet, the day we take a journey no one else has taken before, is the day we discover who we really are.

A selfish person will only make himself happy for a short time, and others unhappy for a long time.

Don’t work hard work smart.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
– Osho

I’m 97% sure you don’t like me. But I’m 100% sure i don’t care.
– Leonardo DiCaprio

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
– Charles Caleb Colton

When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
– Rumi

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
– Walt Whitman

Do you want to give your words power?…Mean them!

Turning the other cheek just gets you hit twice.

Before you point at some one to judge remember you still have three fingers pointing back at yourself.

We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.
– Biggie Smalls

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
– Steve Jobs

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.

Man who throws dirt is most certainly losing ground.
If you have to say it, it probably isn’t true.

The pain you carry, is the Love you withheld.

You learn a bit by winning but learn a lot by losing.

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
– Roy Bennett

Pressure makes diamonds.
– General George S. Patton

Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed…
What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
I don’t understand why people, why every single person is so bad to each other so often. It doesn’t make sense to me. Judgment. Control. All that, the whole spectrum.
^^^ quotes from the movie “Into the wild”.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
– Mother Teresa

Why complain when there are many out there in the world that are much less fortunate as you are.

The falling of dry leaves from a tree is a serious warning to the green ones.

If you place a fresh banana by a bunch of rotten ones, it will also become rotten..

Learning from your mistakes makes you smarter. Learning form your experiences makes you wiser.
– Dr T.P.Chia

In a relationship, the one who loves less holds the power. But power isn’t happiness.

People do not agree with other peoples opinions but only agree with their own opinions when expressed by others.

The same fire that melts butter tempers steel.
i.e. It is not the situation but the material you bring to it.

Be out of the mainstream. I’m out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?
– Bill Maher

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears
– Rudyard Kipling

I’ve received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
– Harry Dean Stanton

The only bad question is the one never asked.

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
– Rumi

It is God’s will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.
– Joyce Meyers

Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.
– Roy Bennett

The most dangerous men I’ve ever met all wear suits.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
– Albert Einstein

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
– Rumi

If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.
– W. Somerset Maugham

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.
– Roy Bennett

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
– George R.R. Martin

Poverty is not being without money, but being without hope.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead

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

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
– Dale Carnegie

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
– Charles Caleb Colton

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
– Desmond Tutu

Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.
– African Proverb,

In time of war remember peace, in time of peace remember war.

Challenges in life come in three categories; Easy, Difficult and Impossible. Those who take the easy way have a safe and boring life, those with difficult way have a tough but satisfying life and those taking the impossible way are remembered.

To get what you need, give people what they deserve.

No- one knows you better than you know yourself.

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.
– Roy Bennett

It takes time for you to realize its only you for yourself in life

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
– Sir Bayle Roche

You can’t change people unless they want to change themselves.

Illusions never change into something real.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

You can never invite the wind, but you must keep the window open.

When the mind leads the body will follow.

Some men are so far in the future that they don’t learn from the past,
Some men are so stuck in the past that they don’t look forward to the future,
And the wise man learns from the past, looks forward to the future, but understands the beauty of the present.

Purpose is that power that will propel you to get out of bed each morning and push you to make your dream come true.
– RVM

Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.
– Roy Bennett

Those who say it can’t be done, shouldn’t get in the way of those who are doing it.

Fear the man which has nothing to live for.

Everything happens for a reason.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
– John F. Kennedy

A battle fought half hearted is a battle half lost.

Simple living, high thinking people always succeed.

You only need the light when it is burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. How?
– Chetan Bhagat

You can know the measure of man more by the grace of his departure than the splendor of entrance.

Sometimes being confused is just denial of the obvious.

Do not do what non-achievers like to do, do what non-achievers do not want to do.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
– Warren Buffett

Thinketh not my age with my wisdom, but rather the age of my wisdom.

He who wished to secure the good of others,
Has already secured his own.
– Confucius

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love each other.

Why be nice to people who have done wrong to you? Because you’re not like them.

A lazy mind is devil’s workshop.

You see a person’s character by the way they treat other people’s children, when they think no one is watching.

A wise man always listens respectfully, speaks humbly, and smiles gently – even when he disagrees with you.
– Dr T.P.Chia

What we think or believe is right often turns out to be wrong.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Whatever you do in life make sure the juice is worth the squeeze.

You are not what you think you are. But what you think, you are.

Dare to be a leader not always to be a follower, dare to stand alone not to follow the crowd.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
– Voltaire

A closed mouth catches no flies.

To a young heart everything is fun.
– Charles Dickens

Introspect. Dive deep into your own life and think. . . Think. . . “how have I lived?”, “how can I make my life better?”
– RVM

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
– Victor Hugo

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
– Horace

A broken clock is even right twice a day

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
– Malcolm X

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
– Mother Teresa

A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.

The slow and cautious walk of a lion is not a display of cowardice.

Self entitlement is something that is embraced by those who feel like something is owed to them because of their position and or whom they are. In reality, the very thing that you think that make you important really means nothing when it’s all said and done.

It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Arguing with an idiot makes you more of an idiot yourself!

Wisdom does not come overnight.
– African Proverb

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
– Rumi

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Failure is the only way to success

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
– Confucius

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
– Brene Brown

In the abundance of water only the fool is thirsty.

Words can make or break you. Be careful how you choose your words.

She deserves compliments often, not just when you want something from her.

A truly wise man has the ability to see and understand what many do not see and understand, and to arrive at the most appropriate and right judgment sensibly and farsightedly.
– Dr T.P.Chia

A fool is a wise man in training!

A man is successful when he gets up in the morning, goes to sleep at night, and in between he does what he wants to.

One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.
– John O’Donohue

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
– Paulo Coelho

The third- rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second- rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first- rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Only a fool fights physically, the wise fights mentally

The grass may be greener on the other side…but it is just as hard to mow.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those who laugh to make others happy are the ones who need someone to make them happy.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

He who talks the most will get no one to listen.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
– Rene Descartes

Words can help, words can heal…they can also hurt, and can also kill.
– Tim Walters

Don’t throw away your stick before you cross the river.

One thing I can give and still keep: my word.

Well my best friend told me this so technically I didn’t think of it but anyway…
If He(God) bought you to it he will get you through it!!

You can’t prevent, what you can’t predict.

A fool is made more of a fool, when their mouth is more open than their mind.
– Anthony Liccione

People who follow other peoples steps, will never be in front.

In a beauty contest of monkeys there is always a winner.

A wise man is kind, humble, self-restrained, patient, empathetic, fair and just and is resistant to genitive temptations.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
– Dalai Lama

Numbers alone confirms no advantage
– Sun Tzu (The Art of war)

Wisdom is far better than strength.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere!

At the end, what will matter most is the good deeds you did for the people around you; not the money and fame.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Say what you know, but don’t say everything you know.

We love to control others when the only one we need to control is ourself.

Don’t be a sheep that follows blindly. Be your own person that takes advice and thoughts given to them, and then act on your own accord based on that information.

To find yourself, think for yourself.
– Socrates

To protect the sheep you have to catch the wolf.. and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
– Franz Kafka

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
– Voltaire

It it’s meant to be it will be.

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

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
– Yoko Ono

The difficulties in life are intended to makes us better not bitter.

Never under estimate the price you pay to learn something, just make sure what you have learned is worth the price.
– Shady Boules

Ask questions. That’s how you learn.

The wounded heart of a True Lover will not curse but will only bless

Patience is gold.

Stupid people seek entertainment
Wise people seek wisdom
Smart people seek knowledge.

Just walk straight ahead and never look back.

People do not seem to realize that something is important to them until they feel that there is a chance they could lose it.

The swift do not win every race, nor the strong win every struggle – but that’s the way to bet.
– Brad Branham.

Man is man’s greatest limitation! Man’s limitations are not tangible as he thinks, rather man’s limitation is a state of his mind, it’s his habit, his pride, his culture, his religion! Man is man’s greatest problem hence man cannot attain his full potentials.

Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.
– Gordon B. Hinckley

Negative thoughts cripple the power of the mind, reduce its ability to think clearly, rationally and positively, and give birth to a messy, stagnant life.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
– Sydney J. Harris

He who hid well, lived well.
– Rene Descartes

The decisions you make today, affect what happens tomorrow. Make no regrets and live the best way you can.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
– Confucius

You are the child of your thoughts. Positive thoughts build you up and negative thoughts break you down.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Intelligence counts a lot. But it is the personality that speaks first even before your mouth proves the power of your brain.

The happiest man is the one who has experienced the most pain.

Talk sense or keep quiet.

When giants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.

What goes around comes around, what goes up simply must come down.

Things changes. Even the devil was once an angel.

We are products of our environment.

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Saying “I’m okay” when we’re dying inside . #WeAllDoThat.

How do you measure a man? When his world falls apart how tall dose he stand.

Don’t waste your time and energy plucking a fruit that cannot be eaten.

What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.
– Benjamin Disraeli

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
– Jonathan Swift

If you think you deserve the best, then act like the best.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
– Socrates

This is concerning Mahatma Gandhi’s quote “Eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.”
If the world is willing to let itself become blind it most certainly deserves it.

A fool’s tongue is his greatest liability. A wise man’s silence is his greatest asset.

When the music changes, so does the dance.
– African Proverb

A wise man sees an opportunity of success and then invest. A fool will invest and then seek success.

We may know our weaknesses, but not many actually do something about them.
– Dr T.P.Chia

If you hang around nine broke people, your are bound to be the tenth one

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.
– J.R.R. Tolkien

Our thoughts influence and shape our characters, personalities and destinies, as well as our choices, decisions and actions.
– Dr T.P.Chia

At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind.
– Paul Valery

A driver reaches a destination by driving on that road, not by laying back to enjoy the view.

No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people.
– Clarence Darrow

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

Better a little caution than a great regret.

He who doesn’t speak, may know it all.

It is better that a crime is left unpunished than that an innocent man is punished.

Wise people ain’t afraid to admit their mistakes…

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
– John Berger

It is very foolish for a man to fight when he can avoid it.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.

There is nothing to be gained by being arrogant and insolent.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Self-restraint is wisdom. Impulsiveness is foolishness.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
– Roy Bennett

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

In the land of the blind, the one- eyed man is the king.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
– Blaise Pascal

It’s not a matter of having all the answers, it’s knowing what to do with the ones you have.

Change what you can, and accept what you can’t change.

If you would like to seek the truth, Pay attention, This world speaks all the time!!

Without determination, a dream is just a dream.

The stupidest question is the one that was never asked.

The bridges you burn today, maybe the bridges you’ll need tomorrow.

Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.

Invest your time wisely, it pays off in the future.

Don’t follow someone too close that you fall into a ditch with him.

You can never please everyone in life. As long as you are happy don’t care about what they will think of you.

A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.
– Anthony Liccione

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you, it is when you don’t understand yourself. You’re still trying to find the you in yourself.

If it were not for dark clouds we would not know how to appreciate the sunshine.
– Chay Nichole

It’s better to be prepared and not have an opportunity, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Sometimes you just need to get lost, to find the right path.

A moment spent in sorrow or a moment spent in pain is a waste of a great treasure that you will never get again.
– RVM

Knowledge grows the more you give it away.

They always got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.

To love someone one requires positive eyes. To be loved by all one requires positive tongue…better the bare foot than none, better the foot slip than tongue.

There’s a difference between a plan that sounds good, and a good sound plan.

Don’t take special things for granted in your life because they might not always be there.

Life without Feelings is nothing but death.(Atif)

The power of thought increases with education, experience, farsightedness and wisdom.
– Dr T.P.Chia

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
– Rene Descartes

All men grow old, just a few grow up, and even fewer grow wise.

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

If it doesn’t hurt then you’re not trying hard enough. When you feel the pain you know you’re working hard.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
– William Blake

He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune.
– African Proverb

You judge yourself by what you feel capable of doing, while others judge you by what you have already done.

What goes up must come down.
– Isaac Newton

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
– Norman B. Rice

The biggest things in life are not materials.
– Carlos Slim

When in doubt, consult your inner child if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.

When one door closes, two more open. You choose your path.

The world should only revolve around you, yourself, and your loved ones. Nobody else should matter.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
– W. Somerset Maugham

A solution to problem, is within the problem itself.

A copy cat is always a second class.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
– Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom comes through suffering.
– Aeschylus

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

– Mason Cooley

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Ocean of knowledge together with experience gives wisdom.

I’m very young for my wisdom but old enough to share my knowledge.

Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.
– Aesop

No rose is without a thorn.

The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.
– Buddha

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.
– Warren Buffett

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.
– Hsi-Tang Chih Tsang

Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.
– Christina of Sweden

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Knowledge is useless unless you use it.

Knowledge is in books, but wisdom comes by experience.

Show me who you walk with, and I’ll show you who you are.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
– Socrates

The greatest satisfaction in life is not in getting ahead of others but in getting ahead of ourselves.

Nothing has been written about a coward…except for this.

It is the power of thought that enables those who grew up in poverty to strive and achieve great success.
– Dr T.P.Chia

The way you behave says more about who you are.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

– Charles Caleb Colton

Do not let your emotions override your wisdom.

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