Wise Quotes, Wisdom Sayings - Page 5

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Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: today it self’s too late; the wise lived yesterday.
- Martial

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That knowledge which remains only on your tongue is very superficial. The intrinsic value of knowledge is that you act upon it.
- Hazrat Ali

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However long the night, the dawn will break.
– Hausa proverb

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
- H. G. Wells

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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
- John W. Gardner

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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
- Joaquin de Setanti

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You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Irish Proverb

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
- Charles Franklin Kettering

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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.
- Jim Morrison

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For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
- Harry S Truman

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
- Jean Giraudoux

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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
- Hermann Hesse

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It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Scott Elledge

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We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.
- John H. Groberg

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One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
- Heinrich Heine

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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
– Buddha

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
- Alfred Hitchcock

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You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
- Marian Wright Edelman

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For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
- General George S. Patton

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Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand.
- Chinese proverb

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Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
- Mother Teresa

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This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
- Phyllis McGinley

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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.
- Zen Proverb

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Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.
- Proverb

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- G.K. Chesterton

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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
- Lin Yutang

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
- Rose F. Kennedy

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It doesn’t work to leap a twenty foot chasm in two ten foot jumps.
- American proverb

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

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Change your thoughts and you change your world !
- Vincent Peale

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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
- Anthony Mello

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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
- Ray Knight