Wise Quotes, Wisdom Sayings - Page 3
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- Plato
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.
- S.A. Sachs
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert
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
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
- Sholom Aleichem
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted
- Anonymous
Don’t prove a point, make a point to be proven
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.
If you ever fell unappreciated, think about how God feels.
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
- Howard Ruff
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
- Vietnamese Proverb
Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.
- Robert Charles
All philosophy in two words, sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
- Sara Teasdale
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
- Leo Aikman
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Winston Churchill
Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.
- Yoda
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
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
- Bob Marley
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The strong take from the weak and the smart take from the strong.
- Pete Carril
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
- B. C. Forbes
No wind favors him who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.
- Will Rogers
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?
- Eve Merriam
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Independence is happiness.
- Susan B. Anthony
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
- Edward Bono
One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese Proverb
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Great men are not always wise.
- Bible
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
- Bible
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is easy to be wise after the event.
- English Proverb
Some are weather wise, some are otherwise.
- Benjamin Franklin


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