Wise Quotes, Wisdom Sayings - Page 3

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- Plato

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You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.
- S.A. Sachs

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert

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It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
- Albert Einstein

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
- Sholom Aleichem

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted
- Anonymous

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Don’t prove a point, make a point to be proven

Submitted by James Grech.
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I’d rather be known as the Wise one, than the Smart one. After all, gaining wisdom is the smartest thing I will ever do.

Submitted by Misha Sareen.
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If you ever fell unappreciated, think about how God feels.

Submitted by Anonymous.
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It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
- Howard Ruff

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb

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When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
- Vietnamese Proverb

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Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.
- Robert Charles

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All philosophy in two words, sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus

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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
- Sara Teasdale

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
- Leo Aikman

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato

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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Winston Churchill

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Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.
- Yoda

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It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.
- Patrick Campbell

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Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
- Bob Marley

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

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The strong take from the weak and the smart take from the strong.
- Pete Carril

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry

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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
- B. C. Forbes

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

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Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.
- Will Rogers

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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?
- Eve Merriam

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Independence is happiness.
- Susan B. Anthony

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
- Edward Bono

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One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese Proverb

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
- C. P. Snow

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

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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust

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Great men are not always wise.
- Bible

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The price of wisdom is above rubies.
- Bible

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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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It is easy to be wise after the event.
- English Proverb

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Some are weather wise, some are otherwise.
- Benjamin Franklin

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