Wisdom Quotes

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

"The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. -Elisabeth Kubler"

"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"

"Never find fault with the absent."

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."

"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail."

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

"We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel."

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."