Wisdom quotes

 

 

Many receive advice, but few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

 

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

 

Here is a challenge; dare to succeed.

Marcela Bennett

 

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

 

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: It is to be controlled by, rather than controlling, what you do.

Heraclitus

 

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

 

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

 

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

 

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

 

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.

Epicurus

 

The greatest enemy of all is considered he who tells the truth.

Plato

 

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

 

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.

Earl of Beaconsfield

 

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Horace Mann

 

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Sophocles

 

Laziness is the source of many evils.

Menander

 

Sometimes the right opportunity shows us that we are not prepared.

Marcela Bennett

 

All is flux, nothing ever stays still.

Heraclitus

 

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

Henry D. Thoreau

 

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Rainer Maria Rilke

 

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Charles Bruxton

 

He who is not aware of his own strength neglects his own self.

Xenophon

 

Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.

Thomas Fuller

 

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Sophocles

 

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Sophocles

 

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

 

The only time an unjust man will scream against injustice is when he is afraid someone will practice it on him.

Plato

 

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.

Doris M. Smith

 

Circumstances rule men and not men circumstances.

Herodotus

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

 

Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.

Socrates

 

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

 

Before success, there is sweat.

Marcela Bennett

 

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

 

It is virtuous activities that determine our happiness, and the opposite kind that produce the opposite effect.

Aristotle

 

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

 

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Sidney J. Harris

 

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Epictetus

Sometimes we need help to get moving; quotations can be that silent hand waiting to help you. It is my hope that you found some of these quotes to be of interest and help.

Marcela Bennett

 

 

 

 

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