Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom Quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything.

—David Allen

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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

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

—Unknown Author

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

—Wayne Gretzky

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

—Ambrose Redmoon

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

—Gandhi

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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

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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

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

—Abraham Maslow

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

—Aristotle

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

—Baltasar Gracian

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

—Basho

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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

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

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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

—Marcel Proust

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

—Unknown Author

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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

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

—Will Rogers

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

—Zig Ziglar