Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom Quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
--David Allen

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
--Unknown Author

4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
--Wayne Gretzky

5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
--Ambrose Redmoon

6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--Gandhi

7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
--Lin-Chi

8. 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.
--A. A. Milne

9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
--Abraham Maslow

10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle

11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
--Baltasar Gracian

12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
--Basho

13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--Lao-Tze

14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
--John Ruskin

16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
--Marcel Proust

17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
--Unknown Author

18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
--Virgil Garnett Thomson

19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
--Will Rogers

20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
--Zig Ziglar