This is a quote I use for everything, including love, it is very well known, I love this quote so much and has helped me so much I have it tattooed on me.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference…
Some stuff (people) just will not ever change, some stuff (people) can change but you just gotta have courage to change it… Most importantly you gotta be able and have the wisdom to know which can and which can’t.
Never try to teach a pig to sing, it annoys the pig and wastes your time.
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
– Brian Tracy
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
– Plato
Don’t try to make sense of which there is none.
In a game never worry if people know how you play your game, as long as you master it.
Better fight for something than live for nothing.
Eyes are the mirrors of the soul.
He who speaks too much doesn’t listen.
He who lies thinks he fooled someone, what he doesn’t know is that he only fooled himself.
In the end you will not be remembered for what you said, but yes for what you’ve done.
Unless you are perfect, don’t judge others for you don’t know every detail of their lives.
Every decision you make has an end result.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Dance like wind, sing like thunder, love like rain.
If you’re not proud of something you’re doing…maybe you should not be doing it!
What is more more important a piece of gold or a pile of mud ?
To yourself you may feel the gold but to a seed no amount of gold can bear fruit.
I probably won’t be the fisrt person to say this, but I have never heard it before.
You cannot suceed without faliure.
It’s better to remain silent when being shouted at as it makes the shouter look foolish.
If you spit against the wind it will fall on your face.
Serenity: when you are at peace with yourself, others and most important God. It’s when you don’t have to wear different mask to be around others and not being a actor in a stage. Satisfied with who you are and what you have.
A straight tree is cut first.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
– Alexandre Dumas
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
– Kiana Tom
Forgiveness is the most powerful tool in the shed and it doesn’t even need need a power source.
Everything begins with a choice.
Whether something is worth it, is based on one’s perception.
At the end of the day, those who do good will get the last laugh.
Those who do not try will never learn.
Time is always against us.
If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.
– Groucho Marx
Life, it’s not always fun.
Love, it’s not always perfect
Money, it’s not easy to get
A good heart, its almost impossible find.
But nobody promised days without pain. Laughter without sorrow. But I promise in the end, its worth it.
Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.
– Criss Jami
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project
Easy paths, crowded destinations.
– Scott Belsky
People can learn alot if they listen and observe whats going on around them.
To be successful is not having others believing in you, but believing in yourself.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
A smart man can learn quickly, but a wise man is the teacher.
The more is complained, the less is achieved.
– Dr T.P.Chia
There are people who dream and there are people who scream. There are people who cry and there are people who fly. The good news is that this is a choice.
– RVM
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
– George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
– Navjot Sidhu
Good things make you happier, but bad things make you stronger.
You know you made the right decision if you pick the hard path, yet you feel light.
Learn from the past; live today happily, think about and build tomorrow.
He who lives by the sword dies by the gun.
You must suffer to reap the benefits.
Success congratulates you in private but failure slaps you in public.
You can not stand in the light while sheltering the darkness.
Thought is what makes us human, ingenious, creative, productive and powerful.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If you think of what others think of you, you will become that. Rather, be what you want to be!
– RVM
Love many, Trust few, But always paddle your own canoe!
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The greatest jihad is to battle your own soul, to fight the evil within yourself.
One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A man is not wise for the wise words he speaks. A man is wise for the wise words he acts upon.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
– Virginia Woolf
Whatever you don’t do, someone else will. And someone else did.
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
– Kurt Lewin
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your ownself
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
– Aeschylus
The bad times pass like the good ones do.
Unless we have the bad we wouldn’t know that the good is good.
Don’t live your life by the book, tear a few pages out, and make it your own.
You’re the author of your life.
Run from the man who’s confused about who he wants to be with.
The more you put your brain to work, the more powerful your mind becomes.
– Dr T.P.Chia
It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
– Barack Obama
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
– Epictetus
As one person I cannot change the world,
But I can change the world of one person.
– Paul Shane Spear
Before you find fault and tell someone his idea is wrong, make sure you have a better substitute
Take care of your money and your money will take care of you
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
– Clarence Darrow
Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
– Madonna
You have the ability to choose your reactions.
– Steve Maraboli
No matter how strong, how tough, how intelligent a person is, no one is invincible.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
– Malcolm X
The power of choice is one of the greatest gifts bestowed upon man.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
– Molly Ivins
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Speak only when you feel that your words are better that your silence.
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
– Walt Disney
Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.
– Dwayne Johnson
Little things affect little minds.
– Benjamin Disraeli
I can’t imagine what you are feeling, but I want to express my condolences to you. Please let me know of any way I can help you.
A wise man can reason and argue with himself, and make himself change the direction of his life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
What we want or desire is not necessarily what we need.
– Dr T.P.Chia
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
– Potter Stewart
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
– Prince Charles
Good, better, best never let it rest until good is better and better is your best.
Today’s doubts are sure to become tomorrow’s regrets.
The one already lying on the floor has no fear for downfall.
The criminal might forget his victim, but never does the victimized person forget his criminal..!
Don’t be possessive for something/someone that/whom you actually do not possess.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
– Albert Einstein
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
– Aesop
Remember that time is money.
– Benjamin Franklin
It is better to try and fail, then to do nothing and succeed.
No one but ourselves can free our minds.
By the time someone says that you do not know anything, it means that they have heard or seen something you have done that does not pleases them. So, people always have something to say and do.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
– Aesop
Don’t ever think you are nothing. Somewhere along the line, there is going to be someone who thinks you are everything.
You can’t lose what you do not have.
Sitting around and arguing about a mess is not going to clean it.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
– Henry Miller
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
– Albert Camus
Being hardworking is the best thing you can show children.
– David Beckham
You will never win an ignorant person through argument.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shame is not what other people can do to you, instead it is what you let it.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn’t try.
– Jen Knox
Be like a bee: anything it eats is clean, anything it drops is sweet and the branch it sits upon does not break.
– Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (as)
Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.
– Kim Jong-un
Deception is never the problem. It’s the fact you let yourself be deceived.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
– JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don’t compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.
– Sam Levenson
Don’t Go After Success, Go For Excellence, Success Will Follow You.
Buying is Easy, Earning is Hard.
Your Greatest Opponent is Yourself.
Objects Can Be Replaced, People Can’t.
The Toughest Thing in The World is Fighting Against Your Self.
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
– Steve Maraboli
There are two ways to get enough.
One is to to continue to accumulate more and more.
The other is to desire less.
– G.K. Chesterton
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.
– Adolf Hitler
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
– Malcolm X
You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts and worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be is what’s happening here and the decisions we make in this moment.
– Jim Carrey
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
– Will Smith
I am tired of the comments that involve “I am 11 and made this quote” when they obviously did not as it is historical so I came up with this one, I am 13 and sick of fakers and liars.
Behind every lie there is a truth, and in effect if one believes that a lie is a truth then it is so, as long as there are masses of people still naive.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
– Josh Billings
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
– Thomas Paine
The less we know and understand ourselves, the higher the price we have to pay in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Bring sweetness in your words, purity in your heart, and the whole world will become yours.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa
Arriving late is better than never arriving.
It’s not about what others expect from you…it’s about what YOU expect from yourself.
Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Even the best batters can’t hit them all.
It’s not the load that breaks you down it’s the way you carry it.
Practice what you preach.
A wise man learns more from a foolish question, than a fool learns from a wise answer.
The bend of a road is never the end of the road, but it turns out to be the end of the road if we fail to bend with the road.
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
– Oprah Winfrey
It does not matter the value of the coat on a man, but the man inside the coat.
If no one talks about you, then you are nobody.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
– Rosa Luxemburg
Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
– William James
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
– William Faulkner
True strength isn’t in the body but in your heart when you are still able to smile after all the bad stuff that happens.
A foolish man starts a war.
A clever man ends a war.
A generous man forgets a war.
A wise man avoids a war.
If you think you’re smart,think twice to be smarter.
– Toba Beta
Be careful when constantly taking “Short cuts”. For eventually you will be “Cut short”.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things i can’t change,the courage to change the things i can and the wisdom to make difference between them.
– Robert H. Schuller
Look at yourself in the mirror and don’t be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.
– Yoko Ono
Hating your body will never get you as far as loving it will.
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
– Oscar Wilde
Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us human.
All human behaviour from kindness to cruelty has at its roots self gratification.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
– Albert Einstein
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
– Karl Marx
That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another…
– Charles M. Schulz
True negotiation is making people think that geting you what you want, gets them what they want.
To be wise is to be a fool with experience.
Mirrors are everybody’s best friend because they never deceive.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
– Albert Einstein
If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backwards.
Tell her she’s beautiful instead of hot. She’s a woman not a temperature.
Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
– Jennifer Hudock
Great minds think alike and stupid ones don’t think at all.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
Silence is golden, Speech is silver.
The world is just like a box of crayons, they are of different shapes and sizes, but they all have to live in the same box.
We don’t know how far the ripples of our decisions will go that’s why we must think things through before we make any hasty decisions, decide carefully.
Still water runs deep.
Dogs don’t bark at parked cars.
Peace isn’t the absence of war. Peace is the absence of Tyranny.
Open your eyes so you can see what’s in front of you.
(This means that in life we are blinded by many things especially when we love, we don’t see the truth many times, like for example the person we love hurts us and we just forget and forgive while if we hurt that person he or she never forgets and never forgives, and than arguing everyday, this has to stop but we keep saying no I love her/him…so open your eyes so you can see the truth in front of you and than once you see the truth take some actions and do something about it.)\
Choose your words wisely. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
– Alan Cohen
The best way to get something to happen is to tell the truth that hurts, shocks, and kills.
Similarities create friendships, but differences keep them together
If no one complains this does not mean that parachutes are perfect
Look at the people around you. Some inspire you, some perspire you. Be with those that build energy in you.
When one door is closed, don’t you know that many more are open.
– Bob Marley
Take the dirt out of your own eye first then out of others.
It is better to conquer oneself than to win a thousand battles…
For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door will open.
Simplicity is the main social characteristic and it prevails among individuals of great thought.
Forgetting is a gift from God so we can move on and start over our life with hope it may take time and we may remember sometimes and no matter what… After all we gonna forget and move on.
Do not ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
A lot of people find faults but only a few could do better.
Life is like a confused teacher…first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson.
– Drake
Good deeds have a ripple effect. If you do one good thing it will ripple out so many other good things.
The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.
– Adolf Hitler
The greatest heroes are those who never return from the battlefield.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Do not mock the mistakes of others, for their area of specialization may be your weakness.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
– Aesop
Not everything is understood the way it is presented and not everyone presents the way it is understood.
– Anuj Somany
The more time we spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to develop true friendships in the real world.
– Alex Morritt
When everyday life is getting you down, it’s time for an adventure!
If you help someone up a hill you get that much closer to the top yourself.
I believe we all have our wise and foolish moments, learn from it and carry on.
Sometimes people need to be shown what they can’t see for themselves.
No matter how long someone heats the water, its boiling point will be 100 Degrees Celsius.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I would rather have it said, ‘He lived usefully,’ than, ‘He died rich.’
The wise man is not the man who does nothing wrong, the wise man is the man who knows he did wrong, he regrets it, and never does it again.
Your problems are only as “Big” as you make them..!!..
They can seem like a “ripple” or as a big “tide”..!!..
But always you are the only one who creates them.
Nobody has the right to judge anyone, cause then we would have to judge ourselves, and we are our own worst critics.
All things being equal, if you give too little you receive too little and if you give too much you receive too much. You could say giving nothing is as selfish as giving everything.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
– Charles Dickens
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
– Jim Carrey
Tell them they forget!
show them…they regret!
People may speak different languages, but when they cough the sound is the same.
It’s better to have 5 lions than a 1000 sheep, or the eagle hunts alone but the vultures hunt together.
Those who can’t accept others for what they are don’t accept themselves for who they are.
Show your intelligence by listening as twice as you can talk, simply because we have two ears and one tongue.
– Epictetus
One Who Fails To Listen. Fails To Learn.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions
If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive
– Dale Carnegie
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
– Charles Caleb Colton
My fragile heart’s been done so wrong. I wondered if I’d ever heal again.
– Bruno Mars
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth – love and prayer.
– Mother Teresa
Forgiving is a part of life. If you don’t forgive, that only hardens you.
Endless research is the key to academic excellence.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
– Steve Jobs
A man’s wisdom enables him to see and understand what is right and true, what is desirable and undesirable, as well as to think and judge intelligently and wisely.
– Dr T.P.Chia
With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
– Brad Pitt
The bigger man knows it’s better to forgive than to fight.
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
– Malcolm X
Words are like time. Once you say something, you can never be able to take it back. So is life. You can’t live twice. Make the right decisions first.
Do not believe what you want to believe blindly. Do not do what you want to do impulsively.
– Dr T.P.Chia
More wisdom is acquired by people during hardship and adversity – and what is learned from failure tends to make people wiser.
– Dr T.P.Chia
True charity is when a part of you was given away otherwise it’s just one of your tax deductibles.
You have to Dream before your Dreams can come true.
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
The truth about greatest inventions is not that they change our surroundings, they just change the way we look at the world around us.
We spend a fortune on what looks good and even more on what feels good, only to find out what we really needed was free.
As much as things change, a few things do remain constant.
If you argue with a fool, it creates two fools.
If I look back I am lost.
– George R.R. Martin
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens
I value compliments from girls more than from guys…I think they are more genuine.
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
– George Washington
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
– Epictetus
Every one has sins or secrets, but you have to reveal them, overcome them and conquer them, and live your life to the fullest and most successful.
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
– Blaise Pascal
Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
– Christopher Hitchens
Make the right choice, not the easy one.
Your courage to do what’s right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt.
– Hasan Minhaj
Saying is easy, changing is hard, being is even harder.
A quiet man either says nothing because he knows nothing or knows so much he needs to say nothing.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor
– Victor Hugo
Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of life, even if it means hurting your eyes.
– Ellen Degeneres
Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.
– Steve Jobs
Blood, sweat & respect. First two you give, last one you earn.
– Dwayne Johnson
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
People fear not the darkness, but of what it may hide.
Being knowledgeable is knowing things, being smart is remembering that you know them.
A person who always trusts other people, does so because he can’t trust himself.
Trust not what people show you, but what they do when they don’t know you’re watching.
Without failure, would there be such thing as success?
The ones who ask questions find what they set out for. The ones who are quiet and observe find out all that they did not set out for.
In a Corrupt World
It is not what you know, but who you know and how you go about it.
You never notice a caterpillar until they turn to a butterfly.
If a dog continues to bite the hand that tries to feed it eventually it will starve to death.
Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s all small stuff.
The idiot thinks he knows everything because he literally doesn’t have enough knowledge to know better. Meanwhile the expert thinks he knows nothing because he is so aware of all the ways in which he could be wrong.
– Mark Manson
If you can’t be a pencil to write anyone’s happiness then try to be a nice eraser to remove anyone’s sadness.
To love yourself is to keep a healthy body, a positive mind, and a worthwhile goal in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If you don’t know how I walk, don’t bother to stand like me.
Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
– Navjot Sidhu
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
– Coco Chanel
People argue less on a full stomach.
– Chetan Bhagat
If someone tells you someones talking about you remember it takes more than one to hold a conversation!
If you don’t hear it with your own ears or see it with your own eyes don’t go passing it around with your own mouth.
To become better is to make another mistake and learn from it.
Good judgment comes from bad experience.
You are who you hang out with..
A fool runs away, but it takes a man to say I am sorry…
Without struggle there is no progress.
Not knowing anything will leave you clueless and vulnerable to those who do.
To belittle, you have to be little.
– Kahlil Gibran
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
– Che Guevara
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
– Napoleon Hill
It is wise to be humble. It is wise to avoid being complacent. It is wise to behave and act positively.
– Dr T.P.Chia
It is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
– Malcolm X
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
– Thomas Fuller
Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
From my grandfather
Don’t take anyone’s right but don’t leave your right either.
A foolish man disparage the wise but deep in his heart he wants to get wisdom.
He who is negative, breeds negativity.
He who is optimistic sees life through a kaleidoscope. He who is negative doesn’t look through that kaleidoscope.
Stupidity come to those who think they are perfect.
When wisdom comes to those who know they are imperfect and can still love oneself.
Blood is thicker then water but a heart of gold is thicker then blood.
If you lie about yourself it’s like a cut. It’ll continue to bleed as long as you lie and eventually you’ll die.
I don’t want to be loved for how I look I want to be loved for who I am.
If there was no hate in this world then we wouldn’t be appreciate what happiness is.
Without trust you can’t have true love.
A person who only cares about themselves can’t be called a person.
If you give someone less attention,the more you get back from that person
Let him sleep…for when he wakes, he will move mountains.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.
– Thomas Fuller
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.
– Kristin Martz
If you listen to what people say you will hunt fish in the forest and fish rabbits in the ocean.
Its useless chatter, to flatter, he who does not matter. Granny Eyes says “Don’t stress, trying to impress, the meaningless”.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Consider how easier it is to have knowledge of what someone else should have done instead of that which they did?
Peace comes at the edge of the sword.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
– Kahlil Gibran
Common sense is not so common.
– Voltaire
You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow.
– Charles De Lint
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
– Margaret Thatcher
Saying sorry about your feelings is like saying sorry for being alive.
Great are those who can not only see the faults of others, but also those of themselves.
Worrying is so dumb. It’s like carrying an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
Don’t let people’s compliments get to your head and don’t let their criticism get your heart.
The less you share, the less likely people will be in your business.
No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.
Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends.
– Imran Khan
The fear of rejection is the beginning of self- sabotage.
Everybody wants what they can’t have.
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
– Helen Keller
It takes courage to make people around you happy even if it seems they don’t deserve it.
If you let people upset you, you are loading them with power.
The Ultimate measure of a man, is not where he is in times of comfort; but, where he stands in moments of Challenges and Controversy.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Wisdom grows with experience, time and age, but not all order people are necessarily wiser.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.
– George Carlin
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
– Denis Waitley
There was a man who thought he was above me, and he was until he had that thought.
The grass is never greener on the other side, it’s always greener where you water it.
No wise man will call himself wise.
“A MAN OF A FEW WORDS IS A MAN OF THE MOST WORDS INDEED”
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always.
– Oprah Winfrey
It’s okay if you call me an outcast. But just remember not to need my help for the rest of your life.
Sometimes it is the little things that make the biggest difference.
– David Beckham
The day you stop trying, is the day you stop gaining.
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword, there is always someone stronger than you.
A wise man always tells the truth, but a fool always tells the whole truth.
Being quiet is not bad, most people tend to ignore one another anyways.
One drink won’t get you drunk
Unless you keep on drinking
One thought won’t make success
Unless you keep on thinking
One walk won’t take you far
Unless you keep on walking
Nobody would know your business
Unless you keep on talking.
Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes is colorful way of telling you to try to understand someone’s situation from his perspective, not just your own. People often do foolish, even terrible things. We don’t need to condone their bad actions, but we should at least try to understand them.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
– Baltasar Gracian
Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life.
– Yoko Ono
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
– William Shakespeare
Knowledge is only given to those who are willing to seek it.
True victory is winning after you have lost something
Timely interventions saves situations.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
– Aesop
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
– Charles Dickens
Learn to think with your mouth closed.
If you have a black goat to chase, you should better do so before darkness falls.
Strong doesn’t mean you can beat up someone, strong means you can still put up that smile when behind it, you hide many tears.
You got to respect yourself for other to respect you.
The differnce between ordinary and extrordinary is the little extra
The hardest part in climbing to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
– Aesop
Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
– Thomas Paine
You must learn from the wise so that you become a wise person, and you must learn from the fool so that you will not become a fool.
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
– Thomas Fuller
The best way to find yourself
Is to lose yourself in the service of others.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Minds, nevertheless, are not conquered by arms, but by love and generosity.
– Baruch Spinoza
If you don’t have the time to do it right then you must have the time to do it over.
Everything in this life is relative to something else.
Keep it simple. The more you say, the less people remember.
If someone is trying to impress you…one thing is sure that, that person is already impressed by you..!
A harsh word, like a stone, once caste can never be taken back.
What is believed is not necessarily right and truthful. What is legalized is not necessarily fair and just.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If you’re not going to risk one thing, you’ll never risk and gain anything.
I am the wisest man alive for I know one thing and that is that I know nothing.
– Socrates
It is not the world or the people in it that drives a man crazy, it’s holding far too much knowledge.
– Stephen Davies
Wisdom is knowledge in motion.
Never regret a word you say, because you meant every word you said, just the result of it is was not what you were expecting.
Clean your own house before speaking of your neighbors affairs.
Knowledge shared, is Power squared.
Stand up for what is right.
A man who treats his woman as a princess qualifies himself as a prince.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
– Indira Gandhi
Any place with a shortcut is not worth getting to.
When you get an opportunity for something you’ve waited for your whole life, don’t just stand there and hesitate while that chance slips right out of your grasp and you regret that you didn’t act until it was too late.
And if this opportunity would turn out to be a trap or something you didn’t expect..Don’t cry over it, Learn from your mistakes so that when the next time this opportunity shows up, you’ll know just what to do.
Sometimes, if you want to change a man’s mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
– Megan Whalen Turner
Telling a girl she’s beautiful can make her day a 100 times better.
– Sergio Raza
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
– Eugene Ionesco
You can never get the right thing looking in the wrong place.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
– Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
Don’t exist.
Live.
Get out, explore.
Thrive.
Challenge authority. Challenge yourself.
Evolve.
Change forever.
– Brian Krans
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
– Yoko Ono
We always feel that good things happen only to others, but we always forget that we are others for someone else!
Being weak is a choice. No one was born weak. Strength is built by self.
Fight only when you can win; move away when you cannot because “Avoiding conflict is also victory”.
Wisdom, the intellectual ability to think and judge intelligently and wisely, is the antidote to ignorance, biases, prejudices and foolishness.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The walls we erect to protect ourselves are what confine us.
The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.
– Colin Powell
People are like science, just when we think we have a grasp on understanding we discover something new that completely debunks every thing we thought we knew.
Talking a lot does not mean you’re wise.
Perspective is the mother of opinion
Why pray for someone because they are hungry when you have money in your pocket? Stop asking for a blessing and when you are the blessing!
A cat with a loud noise will never catch a mouse.
Never be afraid to do the right thing, you’ll regret it. Believe me.
An optimist sees the cup half full.
A pessimist sees it half empty.
A realist asks whether the cup was filled to half, thus making it half full. Or filled full then drank down to half, thus making it half empty.
Where there’s doubt…there is no doubt…
– Robert De Niro
A monkey in his mother’s eyes is a deer.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
– Mark Twain
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
– Oliver Goldsmith
Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.
– Sonya Parker
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
– Roy Bennett
What may seem to be the end may also be the beginning.
Still waters run deep.
The squeakiest wheel gets oiled first.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
– Helen Keller
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
– Criss Jami
Do not play your tune to a deaf crowd.
You teach someone how to treat you by the things you put up with.
It’s not about whom you spend the most time with, it’s about who you have the best memories with.
If we just wait for something to happen it never will.
It is always wise to look ahead but foolish to try to look farther than you can see.
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
– Benjamin Franklin
The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.
– John Lennon
You can’t stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
– Amy Tan
We must listen more and speak less. That’s why we have two ears and one mouth.
Beware of the unwise for they try to grow apples with peach seeds.
Wise are those who see their mistakes and happens to correct them.
Well done is better than well said.
The sad thing is…those who really know how to rule a country works either as a janitor or in a warehouse…
Every weapon presumed flawless always has one imperfection, it’s user.
Money is not the root to all evil its the LOVE of money that’s the root to all evil, For you can not put love where it doesn’t exist, remember love must be given to you, and true love comes from God.
As was his language so was his life.
– Seneca
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt,forget.
– Christina G. Rossetti
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
– Margaret Thatcher
Cleverness is not wisdom.
– Euripides
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
– John C. Maxwell
For once you taste failure, you have no fear. You can take risks more easily. Then You don’t want to snuggle in your comfort zone anymore-you are ready to fly.
– Chetan Bhagat
Whoever makes what does not concern him his business will fail to deal with what does concern him.
– Imam Ali a.s
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
– Saint Augustine
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
– Zig Ziglar
A wise man practices his religion without hating religion of others.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
– Yehuda Berg
No matter the situation don’t let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
– Turcois Ominek
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
– Vladimir Putin
I’m not wise enough to put quotes here, but I’m wise enough to take wise quotes from here and put it on Facebook, so I sound smarter than I really am.
I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.
– Robert Frost
All wise men were fools before.
Embrace the hard questions. Be wary of the easy answers.
Practice Exceeds Talent.
You would worry less about what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they actually do.
One test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Birds of a feather flock together.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
– Ayn Rand
A girl or woman who thinks marriage is the only option out of poverty and suffering to great life, lacks ambition and set bad example to those around her and the children she is going give birth or those she have.
Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find ourselves.
– Sonny Long
Never give up what you want for what you want right now.
If you expect less than you deserve, then you get exactly what you deserve.
Forgiveness is the best retaliation.
Any man that has never lied to a woman does not have respect for her feelings.
If you hang around the barbershop, eventually you will get a haircut
Remember the 3 R’s
“Respect for yourself”
“Respect for others”
“Responsibility for your own actions”
When you expect nothing but the best, you very often get it :)
Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don’t be bound by rules, don’t hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else’s dream.
– Shah Rukh Khan
Every man and woman are created equal, only in our abilities and judgement that sets us off.
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
– Larry Leissner
Living is easy with your eyes closed.
Don’t fight poverty. Fight ignorance. That’s worse.
Two good things happen when you forgive. You free yourself and you free someone else.
To measure one’s real value, take away assets. What are you now?
Never say never because you never know what the future has for you…
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
– Thomas A. Edison
Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can’t answer.
– Charles M. Schulz
Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
– Blaise Pascal
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
– William Blake
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
– Denis Waitley
The privilege comes with a huge amount of responsibility, as long as we’re this age and we’re still interesting, we want to make as much of a difference as we can for the better.
– Prince Harry
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don’t think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
– Indira Gandhi
Turn off the news. Delay the unessential. Reduce your appointments. Slow down. Break tasks into small portions. Seek help. Focus on little pleasures. Count your blessings. Sleep. Drink more water. Take a walk. Breathe deeply. Sit quietly and let every muscle relax.
– Thibaut
Why pray for someone who is hungry when you have money in your pocket? Stop praying for a blessing and be one!
The man who never picks up his fists and waits is the strongest man in the world.
No Matter The Scarcity Of Flesh The Vulture Will Never Eat Grass.
Creativity’s worst enemy is common sense.
To lead a creative life you have to eliminate the fear of being wrong.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
– Oprah Winfrey
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
– George Washington
Some people are experts and always have answers to everyone else’s problems, but when those same people have a problem, they are the ones asking for help.
No matter how far wrong you have gone. You can always turn around.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
– Bill Gates
A brilliant idea without application is merely a wasted thought.
Two wrongs never make a right.
You might say you always do your best, but your limit is much higher.
If you don’t socialize, you are either the most observant or the most unobservant.
When the day ends, do what you can to make the next one better.
What you do doesn’t matter – the result does.
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I don’t like being confused, I wish you would just tell me how you feel.
To be smart is to avoid negative thoughts, behaviors and habits.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If you do not understand yourself, you cannot really see your own future.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
– Rene Descartes
It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
– Irish Proverb
As to diseases, make a habit of two things – to help, or at least, to do no harm.
– Hippocrates
If you want to know what you believe, look at your actions.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Discipline yourself first, before judging others.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
– Wayne Dyer
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
– Marcus Aurelius
Wisdom is worth more than gold in enlightening and improving the human race.
– Dr T.P.Chia
24 hours/day are given to everyone, but usage of it is what distinguishes a wise person from fools.
It is better to have and not need than to need and not have.
Knowledge and talent are useless unless one can use them.
A man will only do to you what you allow him to do.
One’s trash is another one’s treasure!
A fish not caught by hook will surely be caught by net.
The mentality of a man is the driver to his destiny.
You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
– Wayne Dyer
A hundred-load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
– Winston Churchill
A fine pearl may reside among a heap of pebbles.
To walk away from the problems often will make the problems walk up to you.
Knowledge is proud, but wisdom is humble.
Doing your best is more important than being the best.
If you don’t work for a thing, things won’t work out for you.
Try to be perfect on listening just like you’re on talking.
If someone isn’t worth your time, Don’t give it to them.
Wisdom does not lie in the head of just one man.
If you can’t say anything nice, say nothing at all.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
– Seneca
If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.
– Samuel Goldwyn
He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Silly talk is a sign of shallowness. Foolish vanity is a mark of stupidity.
– Dr T.P.Chia