By Maxime Lagacé
Maxime is the founder and chief editor of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm, peaceful and powerful mind. Learn more about him on his about page.
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I’ve spent 10,000+ hours researching the best quotes since 2004.
The topics?
- Happiness
- Wisdom
- Peace
- Life
- And many more
But only a few of these quotes were truly amazing.
The result?
83 life quotes that will transform your life (updated for 2023).
You’ll discover quotes by Buddha, Bruce Lee, Thoreau, Picasso, Einstein, Seneca, etc.
Enjoy!
Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top. Maxime Lagacé
Meaning: You will find meaning in life by doing what YOU think is important, not what others say.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Bruce Lee
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca
A happy life consists in the tranquility of mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. Albert Camus
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Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it. Naval Ravikant
Meaning: Society tells you most things are important in your life, but they are not. And only a handful are vital to the “good life.” Focus on them.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi
Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless. Maxime Lagacé
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James
Life is a book you write, not a movie you watch. Maxime Lagacé
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. Charles Bukowski
Meaning: Be a little adventurous. Take little risks. Try something new. Spice up your life.
Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love. Maxime Lagacé
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live. Naval Ravikant
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. William W. Purkey
Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you. Naval Ravikant
I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. Zsa Zsa Gabor
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You are not what you want to be. You are what you do daily. Maxime Lagacé
Meaning: Having goals and dreams is fine. But you need consistent action each day to have an impact and make a change in your life.
Life gets better when you stop caring about everything. Maxime Lagacé
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren
The cost for the good life is giving up comfort. Maxime Lagacé
The first step to life is to try. The second is to learn. The third is to share. Maxime Lagacé
The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. St. Augustine
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
Life is from the inside out. When you shift on the inside, life shifts on the outside. Kamal Ravikant
Meaning: Everything you want in life: happiness, success, and connection, starts with self-understanding.
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. Snoopy
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
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Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
Meaning: This life is precious, mysterious, and the only one you have. Accept it as it is. Say “yes” to life. Be happy now.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
No person has the right to rain on your dreams. Martin Luther King Jr
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey
Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. Michelle Obama
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing and the tutorial is way too long. Elon Musk
I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. Indira Gandhi
No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most. Naval Ravikant
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy
Meaning: At the end of your life, you’ll remember one thing: the moments you’ve spent with the people you love. So cherish those. Create more moments.
Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. Jordan Peterson
Cut yourself off from the past and the future and live in the present, and your life becomes a song and a dance. Osho
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler
Life is sweeter when you have an attitude of gratitude. Dolly Parton (Source)
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
Challenges, failures, defeats and ultimately, progress, are what make your life worthwhile. Maxime Lagacé
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Think new thoughts and you will change your mind. Change your mind and you will change your life. Maxime Lagacé
Meaning: A confused mind leads to a confused life. A happy mind leads to a happy life. So choose your thoughts wisely. And watch your life change.
Be willing to sacrifice what you think you have today for the life that you want tomorrow. Neil Strauss
The more silence you have in your life, the louder your work can be. Maxime Lagacé
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman
Your best life will not be found in comfort. It will be found in fighting for what you believe in. Maxime Lagacé
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. Rick Riordan
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James
Life is not a competition. It’s not about winning or losing. Life is about all the fun we have before it ends. Simon Sinek (Source)
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. Gary Keller
Meaning: Ultimately, your life comes down to the choices you make. If you want a better life, make better choices.
Life is not accumulation, it’s about contribution. Stephen R. Covey
Life is a tree. Your mind is the roots and who you become is the fruits. Maxime Lagacé
The only way out is through. Robert Frost
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello
The ego wants comfort and certainty. The soul wants to live fully. Maxime Lagacé
Stop seeking today. You have all it takes to live a good life. You have your mind. Maxime Lagacé
Be pleasantly surprised by everything that happens. Life is more fun that way. Lex Fridman
Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. Jim Carrey
Conclusion
A secret to life: Know that none of this matters, and yet… live as if every single moment does. Kamal Ravikant
Meaning: We must keep one simple thing in mind: we will not live forever. So give everything you have while you can. Life is short.
Key Takeaways
- Life is short, precious, and beautiful. Don’t waste it on petty things.
- Life is also hard, unfair, and sometimes incomprehensible. Don’t overthink it. Move forward.
- You don’t control most things that happen in your life. Focus on your attitude and your effort.
- Most things will seem urgent and important. Remember: most are not. Relax.
- Life gets better when you surround yourself with positive people.
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1. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi
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3. “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” ― Gautama Buddha
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4. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
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5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
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6. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
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7. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire
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8. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
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9. “You can never plan the future by the past.” — Edmund Burke
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10. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
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11. “Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.” ― Bob Dylan
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12. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” ― Gautama Buddha
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13. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
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14. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” ―Rumi
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15. “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” ―Irving Berlin
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16. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato
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17. “People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
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18. “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows. In every rill a sweet instruction flows.” – Edward Young
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19. “It’s not the load that weighs you down, it’s how you carry it.” – C.S. Lewis
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20. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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21. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
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22. “Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” – Francis Bacon
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23. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
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24. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
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25. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
26. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
27. “Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” – Rebecca West
28. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
29. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
30. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
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31. “If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.” ― Miguel Ruiz
The only thing worse than making assumptions is to believe them.
32. “Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”―Paulo Coelho
33. “I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.” – Drew Barrymore
34. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – The Notebook
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35. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ” ― Anthony Robbins
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If we’re lucky enough to have parents, mentors and advisors, then we have heard plenty of wise sayings and quotes about life.
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Life’s wisdom can often miss us because life moves so fast, that we have to practice standing still.
In many cultures and religions across the world, gaining wisdom is the ultimate goal.
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Something I’ve learned in life is that my favorite quotes and sayings can often become principles to live by.
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Growing isn’t something that happens once. It happens again and again, and again!
36. “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
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37. “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami
38. “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everything you do and have done has gotten you closer to who you really are and who you aspire to be. So in essence, even if you disagree with what you have done, it was never time wasted.
39. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
40. “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb
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41. “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.” – Al Franken
42. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” ― Gautama Buddha
Words only go so far, we must live our message. Our true wisdom is displayed through our actions.
43. “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt
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44. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Harper Lee
45. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.” – Unknown
46. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
47. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
48. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Gautama Buddha
Before you pour your love into someone else, fill yourself up first.
49. “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Wilson Watts
Let’s be mindful of what we identify with and hold on to. Many times we think, “That’s just who I am, that just what I think…” But the truth is, many things we think and desire are not our own. Since our childhood, we’ve been looking for attention and acceptance and most of the time that came from ‘following directions’. Take some time to think about how you think.
50. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John C. Maxwell
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51. “In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”– Theodor Reik
52. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican
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53. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
54. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
55. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
56. “No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.” – Winston Churchill
57. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”– Les Brown
58. “An unexamined life is not worth living.”– Socrates
59. “Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others.” – Wally Amos
60. “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”– Vince Lombardi
61. “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore
62. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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64. “I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.”– C.G. Jung
65. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”– Stephen Chbosky
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66. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
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67. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
68. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
69. “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
70. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford
71. “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” – Gary Keller
72. “Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” – Dale Carnegie
73. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
74. “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown
75. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
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76. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” —John D. Rockefeller
77. “Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.” – Paulo Coelho
78. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain
79. “Each of us experiences defeats in life. We can transform defeat into victory if we learn from life’s whippings.” – Les Brown
80. “When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” —George C. Marshall
81. “If we manage ego wisely, we get the upside it delivers followed by strong returns.” – Dave Marcum
82. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke
83. “Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.” – Lord Chesterfield
84. “There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles.” – Stephen Covey
85. “…just because we feel a certain way doesn’t make that feeling a fact. It only means that we feel that way. We must learn to press past our feelings.” – Joyce Meyer
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A study by the University of Exeter found that engaging with nature, including viewing natural images or spending time in green spaces, can improve well-being and reduce stress.
Wise sayings about life that reference nature or encourage readers to connect with the natural world could be particularly impactful in promoting positive emotions and reducing anxiety.
86. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
87. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”– Harold Kushner
88. “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.” – Shad Helmstetter
89. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy
90. “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”– Vivian Komori
91. “Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
92. “All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”– Ming-Dao Deng
93. “Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love.” – Maxime Lagacé
94. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience, and being persistent.” – Billy Graham
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95. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
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According to research by the University of California, Berkeley, practicing gratitude can improve overall well-being, boost mood, and decrease symptoms of depression.
Sharing wise sayings about life that promote gratitude can encourage readers to adopt a more positive outlook on life.
96. “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.” – Cat Cora
97. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”— Benjamin Disraeli
98. “Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” – Thomas J. Watson
99. “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
100. “Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.” – Henri Bergson
101. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”– Florence Nightingale
102. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
103. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”– Abraham Lincoln
104. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
105. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”– Richard Branson
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Wise sayings to inspire success
A study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology found that people who regularly practice positive affirmations experience increased self-esteem and reduced symptoms of anxiety.
Wise sayings about life can serve as powerful positive affirmations, reminding readers of their worth and inspiring them to live their best lives.
106. “Life isn’t complicated if you don’t break your concentration on your true vision.” – Robert Randle
107. “Wake up to realities! Real life is all about real things!”― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
108. “Life is like a roller coaster / you will have your ups and your downs / you just need to get over it.” – Angelina Sabia
109. “Be smart, not impulsive!”― Bohdi Sanders
110. “Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.” – Benjamin Disraeli
111. “It’s easier to be wise for others than for yourself.”― R.J. Lawrence
112. “Life is a lively process of becoming.” – Douglas Macarthur
113. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
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114. “If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”― Germany Kent
115. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”– Albert Ellis
Wise sayings to elevate your thoughts
A study by the University of Texas at Austin found that reading literature can improve empathy and social perception skills, making individuals better able to connect with others and understand different perspectives.
Wise sayings about life can serve as a form of literature, helping readers develop their empathy skills and connect with others on a deeper level.
116. “Life is given to us / we earn it by giving it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
117. “Never let anyone put you in chains.”― Abhijit Naskar
118. “Life is a divine adventure.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
119. “A wise person says well what he or she thinks, but is wary of himself or herself and what he or she says.”― Lamine Pearlheart
120. “Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.” – Condoleezza Rice
121. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
122. “If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.”― E.A. Bucchianeri
123. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
124. “The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.”― Lailah Gifty Akita
125. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare
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Wise sayings to live by
126. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”― J.K. Rowling
127. “The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”― Hamza Yusuf
128. “Laughter is poison to fear.”― George R.R. Martin
129. “I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”― Joseph Stalin
130. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”― Karl Lagerfeld
131. “Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential.”― Anna Gould
132. “I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
133. “The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”― Ryan Lilly
134. “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”― Jodi Picoult
135. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
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Wise sayings and words of advice
136. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”― Roy T. Bennett
137. “Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”― Joel Osteen
138. “Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.”― Roy T. Bennett
139. “No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
140. “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”― Horace
141. “I don’t agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.”― Hark Herald Sarmiento
142. “The wisest men follow their own direction.”― Euripides
143. “True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”― Suzy Kassem
144. “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”― Helen Keller
145. “Advantages never come free. You have to create it the way you want it!”― Ashish Patel
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Positive and wise sayings
146. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
147. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway
148. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
149. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford
150. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
151. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
152. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
153. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James
154. “Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not.” – Epictetus
155. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
Wise sayings to inspire you to success in life
156. “Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.” – Maxime Lagacé
157. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
158. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
159. “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – St. Augustine
160. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
161. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
162. “Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless.” – Maxime Lagacé
163. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
164. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump
165. “Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.” – Snoopy
Wise sayings to make the most out of your life
166. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
167. “Which way you choose to see your life in the future depends on your attitude today.” – Amy E. Dean
168. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
169. “We never have more than we can bear. The present hour we are always able to endure.” – H. E. Manning
170. “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks
171. “I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.” – Woodrow Wilson
172. “Do not be wise in words be wise in deeds.” – Jewish Proverb
173. “In simple manners all the secret lies. Be kind and virtuous, you’ll be blest and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
174. “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” – Albert Einstein
175. “Life often teaches us through our wrong turns and missed possibilities.” – Anne Wilson Schaef
More wise sayings about life
176. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa
177. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
178. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch
179. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
180. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair
181. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
182. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
183. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
184. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius
185. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Wise quotes to help you through life’s challenges
186. “Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin
187. “He that respects himself is safe from others.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
188. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
189. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into place.” — Lucille Ball
190. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
191. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
192. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle
193. “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” — Dalai Lama
194. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
195. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” — Nelson Mandela
Wise sayings about success
196. “Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Arthur Ashe
197. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
198. “Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” – Paul J. Meyer
199. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
200. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
201. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
202. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
203. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos
204. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
205. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
More wise sayings to inspire and teach
206. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”― Mae West
207. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King
208. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”― Oscar Wilde
209. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”― Cassandra Clare
210. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”― Allen Saunders
211. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”― Roy T. Bennett
212. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”― Kurt Vonnegut
213. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”― Margaret Mitchell
214. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”― Albert Einstein
215. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Short Wise Sayings
216. “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” – Tina Fey
217. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” – Helen Keller
218. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
219. “Life is too short to live others’ dreams.” – Catherine Pulsifer
220. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
221. “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” – Charles Schulz
222. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
223. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss
224. “Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
225. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Anthony Robbins
Deep words of wisdom about life
226. “Short cuts make long delays.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
227. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama
228. “There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.”― Noel DeJesus
229. “Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.” – Stephen Covey
230. “If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”
― Germany Kent
231. “Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action.” – Robert Fulghum
232. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
233. “Thank you consists of just eight letters that form two of the most meaningful words in the English vocabulary.” – Deborah Norville
234. “The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.” – Tim Rice
235. “Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.” – Les Brown
Wise Sayings About Life That Will Change Your Perspective
236. “To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
237. “There is a time to plan, a time to act, and a time to rest; it is wise to know which is which.” ― Emily Rodda
238. “Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ― Roy Bennett
239. “The only way to see everything, my dear, is to see it absolutely.” ― Sherry Lynn Ferguson
240. “Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” ― Suzy Kassem
241. “Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.” ― Suzy Kassem
242. “Your life is not a simulation; it’s the real game. Play wisely.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
243. “A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.” ― Leigh Bardugo
244. “A man without dignity is a man without hope.” ― Andreas Chrysaphēs
245. “Using pride wisely requires a solid grasp of when and why it can go wrong.” ― David DeSteno
Powerful Wise Sayings About Life To Keep You Going
246. “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” — Henry Ford
247. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi
248. “You don’t get character because you’re successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.” — Herman Edwards
249. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” — Confucius
250. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn
251. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis
252. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius
253. “The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.” — Denis Waitley
254. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein
255. “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” — Oprah Winfrey
Wise Quotes To Help You Change Your Life For Better
256. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
257. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” ― Mark Twain
258. “Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.” ― Quintilian
259. “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our
lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.” ― Ronald Reagan
260. “You’ve heard that it’s wise to learn from experience, but it is wiser to learn from the experience of others.” ― Rick Warren
261. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” ― Wayne Dyer
262. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” ― Tony Robbins
263. “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
264. “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” ― Rick Warren
265. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” ― Aristotle
Wise Sayings About Life To Keep You Pushing Through
266. “Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?” ― Elizabeth Scott
267. “Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.” ― George Bernard Shaw
268. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” ― Albert Einstein
269. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Breault
270. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius
271. “Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour
272. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus
273. “Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.” ― Louisa May Alcott
274. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ― Maya Angelou
275. “Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.” ― Mark Twain
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Looking for wise words and sayings about life? We have rounded up the best collection of wise sayings about life, wise words, wise quotes, phrases, proverbs, lines, (with images, pics, pictures) about life to encourage and uplift your spirit.
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These famous words of wisdom by inspirational leaders, writers, authors, politicians and timeless and evergreen. They throw a deep light on how life should be lived and how we should embrace a positive and courageous attitude towards life.
We have divided the post in the following sections to make it easier for you;
- Inspiring Wise Sayings About Life
- Wise Quotes About Life To Encourage You
- Wise Phrases About Life To Enlighten You
- Wise Words Of Wisdom About Life
Inspiring Wise Sayings About Life
- “The most important things in life aren’t things.”
Very Wise Sayings About Life
- “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato
- “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”― Horace
- “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” ―Rumi
- “The wisest men follow their own direction.”― Euripides
- “Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” – German Proverb
- “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.”- Helen Keller
Famous Wise Sayings About Life
- “Each person must live their life as a model for others.”- Rosa Parks
- “Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.” – Gaelic Proverb
- “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
- “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” – Buddhist Proverb
Deep Wise Sayings About Life Lessons
- “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
- “Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours shine any brighter.”
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb
Wise Sayings About Life
- “A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it.”
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” ―Irving Berlin
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”- Oprah Winfrey
- “Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” – Maurice Setter
- “Advantages never come free. You have to create it the way you want it!”― Ashish Patel
- “People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”- William James
- “Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.” – Maxime Lagace
- “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
Wise Sayings About Life
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire
- “Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.”
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.”― Roy T. Bennett
- “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” ― Gautama Buddha
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
Wisdom Quotes About Life
- “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” ― Gautama Buddha
- “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”- John F. Kennedy
- “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe. Trust, let go and see what happens.”
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “No regrets…just lessons. No worries….just acceptance. No expectations….just gratitude. Life is too short.”
- “True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”― Suzy Kassem
- “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” – Rebecca West
- “Humble enough to know I’m not better than anybody and wise enough to know that I’m different from the rest.”
- “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey
- “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”- Dalai Lama
Wise Quotes About Life
- “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami
- “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.”
- “I am not impressed by money, social status, or job title. I am impressed by the way someone treats other human beings.”
- “No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”- Thomas A. Edison
Words of Wisdom About Life
- “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”- Aristotle
- “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”- Wayne Dyer
- “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – The Notebook
- “There is no passion to be found playing small–in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”- Nelson Mandela
- “Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”―Paulo Coelho
- “We can’t upload luck, we can’t download time, google can’t give all the answers in life, so just login to reality, and like the status of our life….”
- “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “I don’t agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.”― Hark Herald Sarmiento
- “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John C. Maxwell
- “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”― Helen Keller
- “Life goes on…whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown. Or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could’ve been.”
- “Life is beautiful. It has its ups and downs, but you just need to appreciate it no matter what. You have one life only, so make it as amazing as you can.”
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”- Jim Rohn
- “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”- Maya Angelou
- “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.” – Drew Barrymore
- “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose–somehow we win out.”- Ronald Reagan
- “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”- Brian Tracy
- “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”- Paulo Coelho
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them–that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”- Lao Tzu
- “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
- “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”- Tony Robbins
- “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ” ― Anthony Robbins
- “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery–there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”- Rick Warren
- “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”- Thomas Jefferson
- “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”- C. S. Lewis
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”- Amelia Earhart
- “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Gautama Buddha
- “Life has a funny way of teaching us. It will create a deep sadness so we know how to truly understand happiness. It will create chaos in our lives so that we way appreciate the peaceful times and it will take those we love away from us so that we will truly understand what their present meant to us.” – Dave Hedges
Wise Quotes About Life To Encourage You
- “Be smart, not impulsive!”― Bohdi Sanders
- “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Life is a lively process of becoming.” – Douglas Macarthur
- “You can never plan the future by the past.” – Edmund Burke
- “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”– Albert Ellis
- “Before you pour your love into someone else, fill yourself up first.”
- “It’s easier to be wise for others than for yourself.”― R.J. Lawrence
- “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
Wise Sayings About Life Images
- “He who has a WHY to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” – C.S. Lewis
- “He that respects himself is safe from others.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Positive Wise Sayings About Life
- “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle
- “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.” – Shad Helmstetter
- “Wake up to realities! Real life is all about real things!”― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”– Florence Nightingale
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” – Dalai Lama
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”– Richard Branson
- “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “Life isn’t complicated if you don’t break your concentration on your true vision.” – Robert Randle
- “Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”– Vivian Komori
- “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”– Abraham Lincoln
- “Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”― Germany Kent
- “When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” – George C. Marshall
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi
- “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”– Harold Kushner
- “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “Life is like a roller coaster / you will have your ups and your downs / you just need to get over it.” – Angelina Sabia
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.” ― Bob Dylan
- “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
Wise Sayings About Life Lessons
- “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience, and being persistent.” – Billy Graham
- “Singlesness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke
- “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
- “All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”– Ming-Dao Deng
- “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
- “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” ― Gautama Buddha
- “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.” – Al Franken
- “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
Wise Phrases About Life To Enlighten You
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.”– Socrates
- “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”
- “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
- “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” – Gary Keller
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
Wise Sayings
- “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
- “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” – Francis Bacon
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “It’s not the load that weighs you down, it’s how you carry it.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.” – Henri Bergson
- “I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.”– C.G. Jung
Wise Words About Life
- “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt
- “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”– Stephen Chbosky
- “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Harper Lee
- “No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.” – Winston Churchill
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
- “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore
- “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
- “Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” – Thomas J. Watson
- “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows. In every rill a sweet instruction flows.” – Edward Young
- “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
- “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
- “In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”– Theodor Reik
- “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”— Benjamin Disraeli
- “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican
- “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”– Les Brown
- “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
- “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others.” – Wally Amos
- “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown
- “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.” – Cat Cora
- “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”– Vince Lombardi
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford
- “Today is life–the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” – Dale Carnegie
Wise Words Of Wisdom About Life
- “Life is a divine adventure.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Laughter is poison to fear.”― George R.R. Martin
- “Never let anyone put you in chains.”― Abhijit Naskar
- “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
- “Life is given to us / we earn it by giving it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “I believe in only one thing,the power of human will.”― Joseph Stalin
- “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”― Karl Lagerfeld
- “If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.”― E.A. Bucchianeri
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
- “There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles.” – Stephen Covey
- “Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.” – Lord Chesterfield
- “Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential.”― Anna Gould
- “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”― Jodi Picoult
- “If we manage ego wisely, we get the upside it delivers followed by strong returns.” – Dave Marcum
- “Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”― Roy T. Bennett
- “I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” —George C. Marshall
- “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”― J.K. Rowling
- “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.”― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”― Joel Osteen
- “Each of us experiences defeats in life. We can transform defeat into victory if we learn from life’s whippings.” – Les Brown
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare
- “A wise person says well what he or she thinks, but is wary of himself or herself and what he or she says.”― Lamine Pearlheart
- “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke
- “The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”― Ryan Lilly
- “The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”― Hamza Yusuf
- “Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.” – Condoleezza Rice
- “…just because we feel a certain way doesn’t make that feeling a fact. It only means that we feel that way. We must learn to press past our feelings.” – Joyce Meyer
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Daily Words Of Wisdom
“1. To get somewhere new, you must first decide that you are tired of being where you are.”
“2. And suddenly you realize it’s time for a change. You are ready for beginnings.”
“3. One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means you were put to the test and didn’t fall apart.”
“4. Surround yourself with people… Who illuminate your path. Who pushes you to dig deeper. Who makes you happy? Who makes you laugh?”
“5. It might take a day, it might take a year. Just hold onto faith and let go of fear.”
“6. Every second is a chance to turn your life around.”
“7. Never give up on something you really want, it is difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.”
“8. Always pray to have eyes that see the best, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith.”
“9. Sometimes life gets worse before it gets better. But, it always gets better. Just remember who put you there and who helped you up.”
“10. Even though I have no idea what tomorrow will bring, I’m going to think positive and hope for the best.”
“11. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
“12. Always trust your first gut instincts. If you genuinely feel in your heart and soul that something is wrong, it usually is.”
“13. If the words you spoke appeared on your skin, would you still be beautiful?.”
“14. Don’t allow something that someone said to discourage you. Instead, use it as a motivator to keep going.”
“15. Love when you are ready, not when you are lonely.”
“16. Some Journeys take you farther than where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”
“17. Breathe in calm your body. Breathe out a smile and relax.”
“18. Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter. And you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up.”
“19. I am learning to trust the journey, even if I don’t understand it.”
“20. Sometimes you just need a big hug.”
“21. One day you will be at the place you always wanted to be.”
“22. I was told I was dangerous. I asked why, and their response was: “because you don’t depend on anyone. I smiled.”
“23. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.”
“24. Today, may you be filled with love, peace, patience, strength, and courage to face the day. Make it great!.”
“25. Fight your fears and you’ll be in a battle forever, face your fears and you’ll be free forever.”
“26. If you’re struggling, you deserve to make self-care a priority. Whether that means lying in bed all day. Eating comfort food. Putting off homework, crying, sleeping, rescheduling plans. Finding an escape through a good book. Watching your favorite TV show, or doing nothing at all- give yourself permission to put your healing first. Quiet the voice telling you to do more and be more, and today, whatever you do, let it be enough. Feel your feelings, breathe, and be gentle with yourself. Acknowledge that you’re doing the best you can to cope and survive. And trust that during this time of struggle. It’s enough.”
“27. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
“28. If traveling was free you’d never see me again.”
“29. After this is all over, you’re going to come out stronger than ever before.”
“30. The right person never stops showing how much they love you, especially once they already have you.”
“31. Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is always mean to you all the time.”
“32. You could meet somebody tomorrow who would have better intentions for you than someone you’ve known forever. Time means nothing, a character does.”
“33. A strong friendship doesn’t always need daily conversations or constant togetherness. As long as the relationship remains in each other’s heart, true friends will never part.”
“34. Overthinking ruins happiness. Stress steals the moment. Fear spoils the future.”
Words Of Wisdom About Life
“35. If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
“36. It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.”
“37. Sensitive people suffer more, but they love more and they dream more.”
“38. I really admire… the people who get up and keep going. Even through tough times, they allow nothing to hold them back.”
“39. Sometimes, I just like to be alone. I am not angry. I am not sad. I just need to be alone.”
“40. Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.”
“41. If you don’t leave your past in the past, It will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.”
“42. You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”
“43. Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you.”
“44. Even when everything seems hopeless and the storm keeps getting stronger. I keep my faith. I can overcome anything.”
“45. Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.”
“46. You are only one decision away from a totally different life.”
“47. Be a reflection of what you’d like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want the truth, be truthful. What you give out. Will always return.”
“48. Today… I will keep my focus on the people, places and things I enjoy.”
“49. You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
“50. Good things are coming. Just keep believing.”
“51. Money does not define a person’s character or value. Kindness does.”
“52. I am grateful.”
“53. True love is about having fun, learning new things, growing together, and never giving up.”
“54. Never run back to what broke you.”
“55. Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows the flowers, not thunder.”
“56. I prefer to be myself and happy rather than like everyone else and bitter.”
“57. Standing alone is better than standing with people who hurt you.”
“58. Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.”
“59. Lay your head down tonight dreaming of your best days still to come.”
“60. Always stay with the person who connects with your soul more than your body.”
“61. It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.”
“62. Don’t just fall in love with someone who says the right things. Fall in love with someone who does the right things.”
“63. For the givers… Don’t allow takers to ruin your loving, giving nature. Instead, do your thing, but set boundaries. You have got to protect yourself or you’ll grow cold.”
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“64. It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
“65. I am grateful.”
“66. I opened two gifts this morning… my eyes.”
“67. Things may have gone wrong today… and that’s ok. Dust it off and focus on what went right. Keep Going.”
“68. Make it happen for yourself because no one else will.”
“69. A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”
“70. Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness.”
“71. We don’t meet people by accident, they are meant to cross our path for a reason.”
“72. Be responsible for the energy you bring.”
“73. Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.”
“74. The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.”
“75. Some people look for faults in others like there was a reward for it.”
“76. Take life day by day. Stay grateful for the big and little things. Don’t get stressed. Let go of the things you can’t control.”
“77. Everything comes to you when you truly need it. Trust and be patient.”
“78. Be patient. Everything is coming together. Type “Yes” if you agree….”
“79. The more you talk about negative things, the more you call them in. speak victory nor defeat.”
“80. Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.”
“81. ..and in the end, all that matters is a kindness. How you treat yourself and all living things make a difference.”
“82. Never get too attached to someone, unless they feel the same way about you. Most people are just curious. One-sided expectations can be devastating.”
“83. Sometimes, some people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.”
“84. Everyone you meet has something valuable to teach you.”
“85. Never underestimate the power of one word. It can change your life.”
“86. It costs you $0.00 to be grateful for what you have.”
“87. Some people spend a lifetime trying to forget minutes of their childhood. Give your child a lifetime of memories they’ll never want to forget.”
“88. Never run back to what broke you.”
“89. Karma what goes around comes around. Speak good words. Think good thoughts. Do good deeds. Keep circles strong.”
“90. Keep going… everything comes to you at the right time.”
“91. I’m strong because I’ve known weakness. I’m alive because I’ve been weak. I’m wise because I’ve been foolish.”
“92. The greatest gift you can give someone is your time; because when you give your time, you’re giving a portion of your life you will never get back.”
“93. I don’t get mad anymore. I just accept it for what it is and move on.”
“94. A good woman doesn’t want perfect; she wants honesty and someone who is man enough to realize that she deserves the truth.”
“95. Loyalty is hard to find. Trust is easy to lose. Actions speak louder than words.”
“96. People may not tell you how they feel, but they will always show you.”
Short Words Of Wisdom
“97. We cannot start over, but we can create a new ending.”
“98. Let’s go where nobody knows our name….”
“99. I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand something from their level of perception.”
“100. Stay single until you meet someone who actually complements your life in a way that makes it better. If not, it’s not worth it.”
“101. I am too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is any greener.”
“102. Souls recognize each other by vibes.”
“103. It’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathed.”
“104. She stood in the storm, & when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
“105. Allow the fires of transformation to burn away all that doesn’t serve you.”
“106. I don’t trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, please don’t make me regret it.”
“107. I want to live my life without stress and worries, I don’t need to be rich or famous I just want to be happy.”
“108. Every struggle I’ve had, good thing I’ve lost, & the memory I’ve gained, has made me the strong person I am today.”
“109. Be picky about who you keep around. Personalities, words, and traits do rub off naturally.”
“110. Sometimes, all someone wants is your full attention.”
“111. Karma: Do good things and good things will come your way.”
“112. You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe. Trust, let go and see what happens.”
“113. Something wonderful is going to happen to me today.”
“114. Be gentle with yourself. You are doing the best you can.”
“115. No matter how badly someone treats you never drop down to their level. Remain calm, stay strong and walk away.”
“116. I’ve made some of the best memories just hanging out, being silly and being myself with good company.”
“117. Surround yourself with people who reflect who you want to be and how you want to feel. Energies are contagious.”
“118. Sometimes having fun with your best friend is all the therapy you need.”
“119. People may come and go in your life, but the right ones will always stay.”
“120. You come to a point in your life when you really don’t care what people think of you; you just care what you think about yourself.”
“121. Type “yes” if you believe in the power of positivity.”
“122. It’s okay to walk away and take a moment to collect yourself and just breathe.”
“123. I really appreciate people.. Who inspire me and help me think on a deeper level.”
“124. You may not have the power to calm the storm, but you do have the power to calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
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“125. You have permission to rest. You are not responsible for fixing everything that is broken. You do not have to try and make everyone happy. For now, take time for you. It’s time to replenish.”
“126. Be happy. Not because everything is perfect. But, because you choose to focus on the perfect moments.”
“127. Life is so much easier when you just relax and chill out.”
“128. Life gets better when you distance yourself from negativity.”
“129. Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.”
“130. I am blessed. Life has blessed me with some amazing people, circumstances, and gifts. Today, I reflect on all that I have to be grateful for and allow even more abundance to enter.”
“131. The best is yet to come.”
“132. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
“133. If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
“134. Do not worry about what people say behind your back. They are the people who are finding faults in your life instead of fixing their own.”
“135. It costs $0.00 to be grateful for what you have.”
“136. Be mindful of others and their feelings. Loyal, easy going people have their limits too. You never want to push people to a point where they no longer care.”
“137. Give yourself permission to walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes.”
“138. No matter how you feel… Get up, dress up, show up & never give up.”
Words Of Wisdom Sayings
“139. Silence speaks when words fail.”
“140. Believe that tomorrow will be better than today.”
“141. No matter how hard life can get, go to bed grateful you still have one.”
“142. Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”
“143. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
“144. You’re on the right track, now just don’t look back.”
“145. Stay positive. You never know what tomorrow may bring.”
Funny Words Of Wisdom
“146. Sometimes you don’t realize the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.”
“147. No matter what I always keep going. I always have and I always will. I don’t give up.”
“148. Never lose sleep over something that isn’t worth staying awake for.”
“149. Some people hold on to anger like there is a reward for it.”
“150. The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.”
Wisdom of the day – 365 words of wisdom or smart sayings for every day of the year. There are situations in life when you want to say something. Something that is meaningful, and thoughtful.
But we just have no words. We roughly know what we mean, but we just can’t verbalize it.
What can you do in such a situation? Seek inspiration from writers, famous philosophers, and famous thinkers!
That’s why I wrote this article. Here you will find a pearl of wisdom for every occasion.
Now you can’t think of when the next time you could use some wisdom? Don’t worry, you just have to read on and you will find out in which situations you can use this wisdom.
When does a wisdom/saying of the day come in handy?
• When you write a greeting card (here you will find beautiful sayings that are suitable for a wedding, the birth of a child, or even a birthday).
• As the introduction or the end of a speech
• You want to comfort someone (after separation, in the event of illness, death, loss of job…
• When someone needs a little motivation (beginning their studies, a new job, every time someone is about to start over).
• You want to cheer someone up (someone is having a bad day).
• For your WhatsApp status
• You can also combine wisdom/sayings of the day with pictures and create beautiful or funny pictures for your social media profiles.
To make it easier to find what you need, the pearls of wisdom are divided into categories. You will find here: life wisdom, inspiring quotes, and motivational sayings, proverbs from all over the world, wisdom that also love sayings, and wisdom that are also funny sayings.
1. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Because knowledge is limited. – Albert Einstein
2. You can hold onto an elephant when it flees, but not the smallest hair on your head when it tries to fall. – Gerhart Hauptmann
3. Spiritual nourishment is like any other; it is more pleasant and beneficial to take with a spoon than with a shovel. – Mark Twain
4. Man does a lot to be loved, but everything to be envied. – Mark Twain
5. Life is like a play. First, you play the main role, then a supporting role, then you prompt the other, and finally, you watch the curtain fall. – Sir Winston Churchill
6. What we regret most are the opportunities we missed.
7. Memories beautify life, but forgetting alone makes it bearable. – Honoré de Balzac
8th measure is knowing how far to go too far. – Jean Cocteau
9. The older you get, the more you need a remembered friend. – Tilla Durieux
10. That is the last word of wisdom: only those who have to conquer it every day deserve freedom like life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. Not the one who has lived the most, who counts the most years, but rather the one who has felt life most. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12. Everyone is art, marked by life.
13. It is almost impossible to carry the Torch of Truth through a crush without scorching someone’s beard. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
14. The desire to befriend is the work of an instant, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit. – Aristotle
15. Everyone only thinks about how to change humanity, but nobody thinks about changing themselves! – Leo Tolstoy
16. Man is born free, and yet he is in chains everywhere. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
17. It is difficult to make predictions, especially when it comes to the future. – Mark Twain
18. Aging people are like museums: It is not the facade that matters, but the treasures inside. – Jeanne Moreau
19. If we are to achieve true peace in the world, we must start with the children. – Gandhi
20. There is always only a moment between too early and too late. – Franz Werfel
21. The two enemies of human happiness are suffering and boredom. – Arthur Schopenhauer
22. I’ve decided to be happy because it’s better for my health. – Voltaire
23. Fate often overtakes you on the very path you have chosen to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine
24. Man’s true perfection does not lie in what he has but in what he is. – Oscar Wilde
25. Fame is the sum of the misunderstandings that build up around a name. – Rainer Maria Rilke
26. Change is as necessary as the renewal of leaves in spring. – Vincent van Gogh
27. Education is what most receive, what many pass on, and what few have. – Karl Kraus
28. Parents are hardest to forgive their children for the mistakes they have brought up for them. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
29. One goes to the next because he is looking for himself, and the other because he wants to lose himself. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
30. What you love, release it. If it comes back, it’s yours – forever. – Confucius
31. Children are not only friendly rays of light from heaven and greetings from God, but also serious questions from eternity and difficult tasks for the future. – Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
32. Chance is a word without meaning; nothing can exist without causes. – Voltaire
33. The future of the people does not depend on the number of cars but on the number of prams. – Cardinal Josef Frings
34. Do not chase the past and do not get lost in the future. The past is no more. The future has not yet come. Life is here and now. – Buddha
35. Life is serious, art is serene. – Friedrich Schiller
36. At first, children love their parents. After a while, they begin to judge her. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde
37. Education is not the filling of barrels, but the lighting of flames. – Heraclitus
38. Ignoring is not yet tolerance. – Theodor Fontane
39. As a child, everyone is an artist. The difficulty lies in staying one as an adult. – Pablo Picasso
40. Anyone who thinks that words can hurt has not yet experienced silence.
41. Take the experience and judgment of people over 50 out of the world and there won’t be much left. – Henry Ford
42. Most of the time is lost trying to gain time. – John Steinbeck
43. Moons and years pass. But a beautiful moment shines through life. – Franz Grillparzer
44. There are parts of the world that are so beautiful that you want to press them to your heart. – Gustave Flaubert
45. What does a child’s soul promise from every glance? A whole spring is not so rich in hope. – Hoffmann von Fallersleben
46. Politeness is like a cushion of air: there may be nothing in it, but it mitigates the bumps of life. – Arthur Schopenhauer
47. Life is a play without rehearsal. So sing, laugh, dance and love. – Charlie Chaplin
48. A keen observer can always tell from the condition of the shoes who he is dealing with. – Honoré de Balzac
49. There is no excuse for unjustified flare-ups; those who let themselves be carried away by anger bring themselves down. – Bible, Sirach 1.22
50. Music expresses that which cannot be said and about which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo
51. The stranger is wonderful as long as there is a home that waits. – Erika Mann
52. A little friendship is worth more to me than admiration from the whole world. – Otto von Bismarck
53. It takes two years to learn to speak and fifty to learn to be silent. – Ernest Hemingway
54. There are three ways to act wisely: through reflection is the noblest, through imitation is the simplest, through experience is the most bitter. – Confucius
55. All people have to be treated a little better than they deserve; that is the easiest way to disarm them. – Dorothea Schlegel
56. Having to be alone is the hardest thing, being alone is the most beautiful. – Hans Krailsheimer
57. Above all, tolerance is the recognition that there is no point in getting excited. – Ambrose Bierce
58. One suffocates the minds of children under a ballast of useless knowledge. – Voltaire
59. If you pick up a starving dog and nurse it back to health, it will not bite you. That is the main difference between dogs and humans. – Mark Twain
60. It’s the same with style as with many things. Either you have it or you don’t have it. – Kurt Tucholsky
61. God gives me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can change, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. – Reinhold Niebuhr
62. One cannot be too careful in choosing one’s enemies. – Oscar Wilde
63. It’s not about having enough time. It’s about taking enough time.
64. What is success? I believe that success is when you can go to bed in the evening and your soul is at peace.
65. Everything wants to live long, but no one wants to grow old. – Johann Nestroy
66. A host is like a general: only when something goes wrong does his talent show itself. – Horace
67. I can withstand anything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde
68. It would be stupid to be angry with the world. She does not care. – Marc Aurel
69. Where do I like presumption? On children. They own the world. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
70. To whom it was destined to be born, it is also destined to die. – Far Eastern wisdom
71. What you inherit from your fathers, acquire it to possess. What is not used is a heavy burden. It can only use what the moment creates. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
72. In the 20th year of life, the will rules, in the 30th, knowledge, in the 40th, judgment. – Benjamin Franklin
73. It is better to enjoy and regret than to regret not enjoying. – Giovanni Boccaccio
74. Criticism is like a brush. With fabrics that are too light, you must not use them, otherwise, nothing would be left. – Honoré de Balzac
75. Certainly it is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what his fate is. – Wilhelm von Humboldt
76. A really great man can be recognized by three things: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. – Otto von Bismarck
77. The truth is a precious good and therefore it must be used sparingly. – Mark Twain
78. A painting is a bridge that connects the mind of the painter with that of the viewer. – Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
79. The greatest difficulties lie where we do not look for them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
80. Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.
81. Comparing is the end of happiness and the beginning of dissatisfaction. – Soeren Kierkegaard
82. There is no better cure for suffering than the encouragement of a noble friend. – Euripides
83. Man invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse in the world would construct a mousetrap. – Albert Einstein
84. Most people are unhappy because when they are happy they want to be happier. – Ingrid Bergman
85. The friends you can call at four in the morning that counts. – Marlene Dietrich
86. Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphs of nature with which she indicates to us how much she loves us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
87. Thinking is difficult, that is why most judge.
88. A day without a smile is a lost day! – Charlie Chaplin
89. Now the spirit does not look forward, does not look back, the present alone is our happiness. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
90. A little crazy, is very close to wonderful.
91. Those who enjoy the present have a wonderful past in the future.
92. Health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing. – Arthur Schopenhauer
93. In the realm of reality one is never as happy as in the realm of thoughts. – Arthur Schopenhauer
94. Man does not desire God so much as he desires miracles. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
95. Miracles are not opposed to nature, only opposed to what we know about nature. – Augustine
96. One can be mistaken in an idea, but one cannot be mistaken of the heart. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
97. The contact between God and the soul is music. – Bettina von Arnim
98. Unfortunately, habits cannot be thrown out of the window. You have to beat them down the stairs – step by step. – Mark Twain
99. No one can keep a body fresh and beautiful if it is nourished by drained thoughts. – Prentice Mulford
100. The joy and smile of children are the summers of life. – Jean-Paul
101. What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think about you.
102. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, it is not worth reading at all. – Oscar Wilde
103. Only in the limitation does the master show himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
104. The words have changed enough, let me finally see the action! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
105. Everything you say should be true. But you shouldn’t say everything that’s true. – Voltaire
106. The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing. – Blaise Pascal
107. Every person’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s hand. – Hans Christian Andersen
108. Happy are not those who have everything they want, but those who appreciate what they have.
109. The cat is the only four-legged animal that has persuaded people that they must receive it, but that they do not need to do anything for it. – Kurt Tucholsky
110. If you want to know how old you are, don’t ask about the years you lived, but the moment you enjoy. – Arthur Schnitzler
111. Life is like a play, not how long, but how well it was played, that is what matters. – Seneca
112. Take a moment to rest and you will see how foolish you have been scurrying around. – Laotse
113. There is no wonder for those who cannot wonder. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
114. You can start a war, but you can never end it if you want. – Niccolò Machiavelli
115. A big mistake: that you think of yourself more than you are and value yourself less than you are worth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
116. One should hear at least a little song every day, read a good poem, see an excellent painting, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
117. We are knocked hard or soft by fate. It depends on the material. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
118. A horse without a rider is still a horse. A rider without a horse is only human.
119. Insults are the arguments of those who are wrong. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
120. You can always be kind to people you don’t care about. – Oscar Wilde
121. Happiness often arises from paying attention to small things, unhappiness often from neglecting small things. – Wilhelm Busch
122. When you have a problem, try to solve it. If you can’t solve it, don’t make it a problem. – Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
123. In any case, it is better to be an angular something than around nothing. – Friedrich Hebbel
124. Be the person you would like to meet yourself.
125. A man with white hair is like a house with snow on it. But that does not prove that there is no fire in the stove. – Maurice Chevalier
126. When the power of love exceeds the love of power, only then will the world finally know what peace means. – Jimi Hendrix
127. The people to whom we are a support give us stability in life. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
128. Laughter is beneficial to the life force because it promotes digestion. – Immanuel Kant
129. Fate shuffles the cards and we play. – Arthur Schopenhauer
130. Politeness is the attempt to soften human knowledge through good manners. – Jean Gabin
131. With knowledge, doubt grows. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
132. Politics is not about being right, it is about being right. – Konrad Adenauer
133. The solution to the riddle of life in space and time lies outside of space and time. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
134. Happiness is not that you can do what you want, but that you always want what you do. – Leo Tolstoy
135. People ask for criticism, but they just want to be praised. – William Somerset Maugham
136. Nature created the buttocks for rest, since animals can stand without getting tired, but humans need a seat. – Aristotle
137. Happiness escapes us when we run after it. In truth, happiness comes from within. – Mahatma Gandhi
138. By speaking badly of others, one does not make oneself better. – Confucius
139. On some days it is only quiet when the music is loud.
140. God answers prayer in his own way, not ours. – Mahatma Gandhi
141. Anyone who torments animals is inanimate and he lacks God’s good spirit, no matter how distinguished he may be, one should never trust him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
142. Wasting time is the easiest of all wastes. – Henry Ford
143. Nothing hinders the progress of science more than if one believes that one knows what one does not yet know. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
144. The father’s self-control is the best instruction for his children. – Democritus
145. Who does not indulge himself, to whom can he do good? He will not meet his luck. – The Bible
146. So much goes wrong in the world because the stupid are always so sure and the clever always have doubts. – Bertrand Russell
147. The dominion over the moment is the dominion over life. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
148. With a childhood full of love, however, one can budget for the cold world for half a lifetime. – Jean-Paul
149. Chance is a riddle that fate presents to man. – Christian Friedrich Hebbel
150. Life holds in one hand the golden royal ring of happiness, in the other the crown of thorns of suffering. Both of his favorites are enough. – Ellen Key
151. Feeling the pulse of your own heart. Calm inside, calm outside. Learning to breathe again, that’s it. – Christian Morgenstern
152 The purpose of traveling is to get to a destination, the purpose of hiking is to be on the move. – Theodor Heuss
153. Only when you know exactly how your grandchildren turned out can you judge whether you raised your children well. – Erich Maria Remarque
154. The perfect interaction with people is the ability, to be honest, and amiable at the same time. – Jean-Paul
155. Tell me – and I’ll forget, show me – and I’ll remember, let me do it – and I’ll keep it. – Confucius
156. The friends call each other sincere. It is the enemies. – Arthur Schopenhauer
157. Man’s errors actually make him amiable. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
158. The heaviest burden loses half its pressure if one can talk about it. – Jeremias Gotthelf
159. Teachers open the gate for you. But you have to step over the threshold yourself. – Hakuin Zenji
160. Marriages and wine have one thing in common: true goodness only shows itself after years. – William Somerset Maugham
161. In every small problem, there is a big one that would like to get out. – Edward Aloysius Murphy
162. A civilization can be judged by how it treats its animals. – Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational quotes and motivational sayings for Everyday Life
163. Whoever wants to become a master practice early. – Friedrich Schiller
164. Forget all the reasons you could fail and focus on the one reason you can do it.
165. Where would the power of women be if it were not for the vanity of men? – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
166. Every time you have averted the avertable, the inevitable happens. – Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary (Sissi)
167. Sometimes one has to go through things and not go around them.
168. What lies behind us and what lies ahead are tiny things compared to what lies within us.
169. To be really successful, you have to compete against yourself, not against others.
170. We never get out of sadness if we constantly feel the pulse. – Martin Luther
171. Often you have to be strong if you want to change something. But you have to be even stronger if you have to accept it for what it is or wait for it to be over.
172. We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we do not. – Molière
173. In every end, there is a new beginning. – Miguel de Unamuno y Yugo
174. It is pointless to say: we are doing our best. You must be able to do what is required. – Sir Winston Churchill
175. Do not spend the time looking for an obstacle. Maybe there isn’t one. – Franz Kafka
176. One waits for time to change. The other grabs them and acts. – Dante Alighieri
177. Start with the difficult things, the easy ones that almost resolve themselves.
178. Whoever gives up God extinguishes the sun in order to walk on with a lantern. – Christian Morgenstern
179. Strength lies in the soul and spirit, not in the muscles. – Alex Karras
180. Scars are tattoos with better stories.
181. Don’t wait. The timing will never be perfect.
182. He who does not know his goal cannot find the way either.
183. You never know how strong you are until the only choice you have is to be strong. – Cayla Mills
184. Whoever sails only when all dangers have passed will never set sail. – Thomas Fuller
185. Physical strength is measured by what we can wear. Spiritual strength through what we can endure.
186. The biggest mistake you can make is constantly being afraid of making a mistake.
187. What the caterpillar calls the “end of the world” is what the rest of the world calls “butterfly”. – Laotse
188. We acquire the power that we have overcome. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
189. It doesn’t matter how slowly you walk, as long as you don’t stop.
190. It is not little time that we have, but much time that we do not use. – Seneca
191. When you feel like everything is falling apart, try to stay calm. It just re-sorts.
192. A bumblebee cannot fly due to the imbalance between body size or weight and its wing size. But since the bumblebee doesn’t know anything about it, it flies on by mistake. – Wernher von Braun
193. Do not think so often of what you lack, but of what you have.
194. Sometimes other people show you how you never want to be.
195. Sometimes changes look negative at first. But soon you will find that they only create space in your life so that something new can arise.
196. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, take the first step at the beginning.
197. I’ve heard that there are problems of more than one kind. Some come from the front and some come from behind. But I bought a big racket. I am ready do you understand? Now my problems will have problems with me. – Dr. Seuss
198. Thinking positively does not mean that you always have to be happy and satisfied. It means that even on difficult days you know that there will be better days again.
199. Take fresh courage! Not a night is so long that the bright morning finally doesn’t laugh. – William Shakespeare
200. Courage is when you are scared to death but still jump into the saddle. – John Wayne
201. There are only two ways to live your life. One is like nothing is a miracle. The other is like everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
202. Paths that lead into the future never lie before us as paths. They only become paths when you walk them. – Franz Kafka
203. Don’t give up, the beginning is always the most difficult.
204. The future has many names: for the weak, it is unattainable, for the fearful, it is the unknown, for the brave it is an opportunity. – Victor Hugo
205. We must be the change we wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
206. Two things should be given to children by their parents: roots and wings. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
207. Sometimes unpleasant things have to happen to remind us that it is time to change something.
208. If you want to refresh yourself in the whole, you have to see the whole in the small. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
209. To be afraid is one thing. Letting fear take hold of you and allow it to swing you around is another matter. – Katherine Paterson
210. Only the thing that one gives up is lost. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
211. Crises are offers in life to change. You don’t even need to know what’s new. You just have to be ready and confident. – Luise Rinser
212. One day or day one. It’s up to you to decide.
213. When someone goes on a journey, he can tell something. – Matthias Claudius
214. He who fights can lose. Who does not fight has already lost.
215. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
216. Don’t dream your life, live your dreams.
217. If you don’t change anything, nothing will change.
218. It is a waste of time to do something mediocre.
219. The most difficult time in our life is the best opportunity to develop inner strength. – Dalai Lama
220. Our greatest glory does not lie in never falling, but in getting up again and again when we have failed. – Confucius
221. Take enough time for the things that make you happy.
222. If you want to see a result in the current year, sow seeds. If you want to see a result in ten years, plant trees. If you want to see a result all your life, develop the people. – Kuan Chung Tzu
223. To be ready is a lot; being able to wait is more. But first, use the right moment, that’s all. – Arthur Schnitzler
224. Giving up is not an option!
225. Those who let go have their hands free for new things.
226. Your own path begins where you stop following others.
227. Happiness comes to those who expect it. They just have to keep the door open. – Thomas Mann
228. Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life. – Mark Twain
229. We can overcome gravity, but the paperwork is overwhelming. – Wernher von Braun
230. You do not find happiness by looking for it, but by allowing it to find you.
231. I am not preoccupied with what has been done. I am interested in what needs to be done. – Marie Curie
Words of Wisdom or Sayings about Life from all over the world
232. The more rocky the road, the more valuable the goal.
233. Remember that someone knocking on your door might be sent from heaven. – Old Irish wish for a blessing
234. A man without dreams is like a boat without a sail. – proverb of the Vikings
235. He who throws dirt at others makes his hands dirty. – from Australia
236. If you are walking in the wrong direction, there is no point in increasing your speed.
237. Water also becomes a fine drop if you mix it with malt and hops! – German proverb
238. Energetic in the matter, gentle in the procedure! – Latin proverb
239. It is not important where you are, but what you do, where you are. – African proverb
240. An old fox knows the trap. – from Serbia
241. Fear knocked. Trust opened. Nobody was outside. – Chinese proverb
242. If you build a house and break a nail, do you stop building or do you change the nail? – from the Seychelles
243. Where there is no more wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no more gossip, the argument stops. – Bible, Proverbs 26:20
244. The higher the mountain, the deeper the valley. – Latin proverb
245. Happiness comes to those who laugh. – Japanese proverb
246. One cannot hold anything with a closed fist. – Celtic proverb
247. A woman’s sword is her tongue, and it does not rust. – Chinese proverb
248. Fearless, hope more, eat less, chew more, complain less, breathe more, talk less, love more – and all things will be yours. – Swedish proverb
249. A dog will remember three days of kindness for three years, a cat will forget three years of kindness after three days. – from Japan
250. One does not love the other if one does not want to be given anything from him.
251. Observe what happened earlier, then you will know what will come. – Chinese proverb
252. Giant silk-cotton trees grow from very tiny seeds. – from Gambia
253. One shouldn’t keep women and soup waiting, otherwise, they cool off. – from Luxembourg
254. An empty sack does not stand upright. – from Guadeloupe
255. Treat your guest as a guest for two days, but on the third day give him a hoe. – Swahili proverb
256. It takes an entire village to raise a child. – African proverb
257. One does not love the other if one does not want to be given anything from him. – Nigerian proverb
258. Children’s eyes are as clear as mountain lakes, at the bottom of which a monster slumbers. – from Scotland
259. It is not the size of the dog that is decisive in a fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. – Texan proverb
260. Those who are burned even blow on yogurt. – from Cyprus
261. The best thing that can be brought back from a trip is healthy skin. – Persian proverb
262. He who has a lot of money is rich. Those who have no illness are happy! – Chinese wisdom
263. Cats love people far more than they want to admit, but they have enough wisdom to keep it to themselves. – from England
264. The “why” of the child is the beginning of philosophy. – Italian proverb
265. When the wind of change blows, some build walls, others windmills. – Chinese proverb
266. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. – Maori proverb
267. Whoever wants to go out into the world to improve it should first go through his own house ten times. – Chinese proverb
268. The smallest hut is better than none, at home you are your own master. – proverb of the Vikings
269. The word “pardon” is the best coin in the house. – Chinese proverb
270. One generation builds the road on which the next drives. – Japanese wisdom
271. Youth feed on dreams, old age on memories. – Jewish proverb
272. Small boats sail just like ships. – from the Faroe Islands
273. Children are the reward of life. – African proverb
274. The pessimist sees every opportunity as a threat, the optimist sees every threat as an opportunity. – East Asian wisdom
275. All rivers run into the sea, and yet the sea is not full. – Chinese proverb
276. He who loves must know that he can also suffer. Those who do not love are already suffering. – Russian proverb
277. Children are angels whose wings shrink the more their feet grow. – French proverb
278. If the mouse laughs at the cat, there must be a hole nearby. – from Nigeria
279. Most laws exist in the worst of times. – Latin proverb
280. The larger the hat, the less (insignificant) underneath. – from Australia
281. Grumpy people have grumpy dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. – Roman proverb)
282. Before buying shoes, measure your feet. – from Equatorial Guinea
283. All the good words in the world are in books. – Chinese proverb
284. One goes beyond knowledge with patience. – from Andorra
285. The best way to wake up is to do it without worry. – from Peru
286. Young speak first and then listen; the elders hear and then speak. – from Lesotho
287. We are born crying while everyone around us is smiling. We should live so that we leave the world smiling while everyone around us weeps. – Persian proverb
288. Children are the messengers of happiness. – Chinese proverb
Pearls of Wisdom or Quotes that also love sayings
289. When women love, they love completely. Loving men have things to do in between. – Jean-Paul
290. A flirtation is like a pill: Nobody can predict the side effect exactly. – Catherine Deneuve
291. Nothing in the world is so fairly distributed as the mind. Because everyone is convinced that he had enough of it. – René Descartes
292. Often the love of life comes only after the mistake of life.
293. A declaration of love is like the opening in chess: the consequences are incalculable. – Hans Söhnker
294. Love is not what one expects to get, but what one is ready to give. – Katharine Hepburn
295. Everyone should have someone they don’t have to be normal with.
296. Trust and respect are the cornerstones of love, without which it cannot exist. – Heinrich von Kleist
297. To fear love means to fear life, and whoever fears life is three-quarters dead. – Bertrand Russell
298. Love does not look with the eyes, but with the soul, and therefore the winged Cupid is represented blind. – William Shakespeare
299. Love makes that one can be courageous. – Mother Teresa
300. Sometimes you meet someone and immediately know that you want to spend your entire life with that person.
301. Love overcomes death, but it happens that a little bad habit overcomes love. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
302. Age does not protect against love, but love sometimes protects against old age. – Coco Chanel
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303. A person is only really rich when he has the heart of a loved one. – Greta Garbo
304. The only food that cannot be satisfied is the kiss. – Christian Dietrich Grabbe
305. Nobody can take away what you have in your heart.
306. Love is a fire that over the years develops more smoke than heat. – Maurice Chevalier
307. Anything that gets your heart racing is worth a try …
308. A career is wonderful, but you can’t warm yourself to it on a cold night. – Marilyn Monroe
309. A bachelor is a man who would rather seek than find. – Caterina Valente
310. Happiness is when you are loved for who you are.
311. A child is a love that has become visible. – Novalis
312. To love is a blessing, to be loved is a blessing. – Leo Tolstoy
313. Fate is when two find each other who have not looked for each other.
314. Love lives on amiable little things. – Theodor Fontane
315. The only important thing in life is the traces of love that we leave behind when we go away. – Albert Schweitzer
316. Giving without taking, taking without owning, holding without binding, sharing without asking, that is love.
317. There is nothing more beautiful than to be loved, loved for one’s own sake or rather in spite of oneself. – Victor Hugo
Pearls of Wisdom that are also funny sayings
318. A bank is an institution from which you can borrow money, provided you can show that you do not need it. – Mark Twain
319. A gentleman is a man who always knows how far he can go too far with a woman. – Sir Alec Guinness
320. Whether a black cat brings luck or bad luck depends on whether one is a mouse or a person. – Max O’Rell
321. Men always assert that they love the inner beauty of women – strangely enough, they look elsewhere. – Marlene Dietrich
322. How wonderful it is to do nothing and then to rest from doing nothing. – Heinrich Zille
323. At last, I know what distinguishes humans from animals: money worries. – Jules Renard
324. At 30, you’re just old enough to know what you’re doing. And still young enough to do it anyway. – Brigitte Bardot
325. Many women are concerned only with their reputation, but the others will be happy. – Josephine Baker
326. The only way to avoid becoming the topic of conversation at a party is to go there. – Elizabeth Taylor
327. As long as one speaks for oneself, one learns nothing. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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328. Good conversation does not consist in saying something clever yourself, but in being able to listen to something stupid. – Wilhelm Busch
329. Many people are too educated to speak with their mouths full, but they have no qualms about doing so with an empty head. – Orson Welles
330. Even at 60, you can still be 40 – but only half an hour a day. – Anthony Quinn
331. I would do anything in the world to regain my youth – except exercise, get up early, or become respectable. – Oscar Wilde
332. One should never contradict a woman. One should wait until she does it herself. – Humphrey Bogart
333. To quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, Verse 28: “No”.
334. One only believes in rheumatism and true love when one is afflicted with it. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
335. The advantage of prudence is that one can pretend to be stupid. The opposite is more difficult. – Kurt Tucholsky
336. Only two things in this world are certain to us: death and tax. – Benjamin Franklin
337. A good speech is one that exhausts the subject, but by no means exhausts the audience. – Sir Winston Churchill
338. When I was little, I believed that money was the most important thing in life. Today, since I’m old, I know: it’s true. – Oscar Wilde
339. Whoever marries can share worries that he did not have before.
340. After a good dinner, one can forgive anyone, even one’s own relatives. – Oscar Wilde
341. The last voice one hears before the world explodes will be the voice of an expert who says: This is technically impossible! – Sir Peter Ustinov
342. A good speech has a good beginning and a good end – and both should be as close together as possible. – Mark Twain
343. Do you know how to make God laugh? Tell him your plans. – Blaise Pascal
344. Happiness is simply good health and a bad memory. – Ernest Hemingway
345. The difficult thing about flirting is not the beginning, but the end. – Hans Clarin
346. Cautious drivers look to both sides when crossing the intersection on red. – Ralph Marterie
347. The weaker sex is the stronger because of the weakness of the strong for the weaker – Greta Garbo
348. In principle, I’m really not superstitious, but if it’s Friday the 13th today, I’d rather come back another time. – Alexander Pushkin
349. The only dangerous thing about flying is the earth. – Wilbur Wright
350. If you want to eat well in England, you should have breakfast three times a day. – William Somerset Maugham
351. Most of the stupid things in the world probably have to listen to a painting in a museum. – Edmond de Goncourt
352. The human brain is a great thing. It works from the moment you are born – until you get up to give a speech. – Mark Twain
353. The heart beats happily in a travel smock, provided one has the means. – Wilhelm Busch
354. Men who claim they are the absolute masters of the house also lie on other occasions. – Mark Twain
355. Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to do them when no one is watching. – Sir Peter Ustinov
356. Money is nothing. But a lot of money is something else. – George Bernhard Shaw
357. In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opponent. – Jean-Paul Sartre
358. The German fate: to stand in front of a counter. The German ideal: to sit behind a counter! – Kurt Tucholsky
359. Fate will be able to separate us, but not be able to divide us. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
360. Set aside 30 minutes for your worries each day and take a nap during this time. – Abraham Lincoln
361. Everyone gives us pleasure in some way: one when he enters a room, the other when he leaves it. – Herman Bang
362. I love people. Just the idea of sharing a room with one of them is unbearable to me. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
363. Happiness is like a pair of glasses. You look for it until you step on it, and then it’s over. – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
364. A snorer in the audience is priceless because it prevents the other theatergoers from falling asleep. – Brooks Atkinson
365. Of course, you have to take men as they are – but you can’t leave them that way. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Words of Wisdom – What is life? Now, when we ask ourselves like this, it means that there are existential questions that have not been answered about the true nature of life.
Often we ask how it should be a complete human being in life. Sometimes we get lost and don’t know the direction of the goal so that the life we live does not produce meaning that deserves our appreciation.
Contents
- Best Words of Wisdom
- Motivational Wise Words
- Words of Wisdom of Life
- Words of Wisdom of Friendship
- Words of Wisdom Love
- Islamic Wise Words
- Words of Wisdom About Living Successfully
- Words of Wisdom About Hope
- Words of Wisdom About Failure
- Words of Wisdom About Gratitude
- Words of Wisdom From Motivators
- Wise Words of World Figures
- Wise Words Full of Meaning
- Words of Wisdom About Nature
- Words of Wisdom About Family
- Words of Wisdom About Time
- Javanese Words of Wisdom
- English Words of Wisdom
This time we will share various life wise quotes and quotes that can be a reflection and reflection for us all. Come on, please listen!
Motivational Wise Words
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Don’t limit your challenges, challenge those that limit you.
If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.
Believe in yourself and you will not be stopped.
Impossible is not reality but just an opinion.
Don’t Compare Yourself with Others. Compare Yourself with the One Yesterday.
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
If your plan doesn’t work then change the plan, not the goal.
Do something today that will make your future self thankful.
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Great things never come from your comfort zone.
Start each day with a positive mind and a grateful heart.
Optimism is faith that leads you to achievement.
If you want something that has never been owned in your life. You must do something that has never been done before.
If we continue to do what we do, we will also continue to get what we get.
Push yourself, because no one else will do it for you.
Success doesn’t find you. You have to go out there and grab it.
Words of Wisdom of Life
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- Achievement is not a coincidence, and dreams will never come true without hard work.
Life is full of struggles in the journey of fighting dreams is the fuel that burns our spirits towards dreams and aspirations.
- Time will never wait. Pursue all your dreams, achieve all your dreams, with prayer and effort. Don’t just shut up.
Life is a struggle and must be fought for. Complete the effort with prayer, then be patient waiting for the perfect result.
- Everything will be heavy. But heavy doesn’t mean impossible.
When in a struggle there are big challenges, it means that the success waiting is also greater.
- Happiness must continue to be felt in the journey of life, not just a life goal.
The journey of life is much easier if you don’t bring your past.
- Good things come to those who wait. But even better things come to those who move for it.
Not everyone will understand your way. It’s okay, they don’t live to understand you.
- Don’t expect anyone to understand your way of life, especially if they never walk alone with you.
Life is a long journey in a narrow time, fill it with proud struggles, and cherish it with sincerity.
- The more difficult the struggle, the more beautiful it will be to achieve victory.
Believe in yourself Even if you don’t really believe it, pretend it. At one point, you will truly believe in yourself.
- Prayer is the power of conviction and passion. Efforts on the right path with prayer will be sure to be successful.
Words of Wisdom of Friendship
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True friends are not those who have a lot in common, but those who have an understanding of every difference.
True friendship is when you have to see your best friend leave and know you won’t see him again. But you know he will always be in your heart and mind forever.
Words are easy to make, like the wind; Loyal friends are hard to find.
We used to be two strangers, then became friends. Now that we are friends, I hope we will never become two strangers again, even if we are now apart.
Friends look for you when others insult you, Friends embrace you when Others beat you.
I think of you as a friend. I thought friends were just a word back then. Nothing less, nothing more. But after meeting you, I realized that what matters is the meaning in it.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
The most beautiful thing about friendship is understanding and being understood. Without ever being pushy and wanting to win alone.
Birds have cages, spiders have webs, humans have friendships.
A best friend is someone who knows about you and still loves you.
A friend is someone who believes in me, when others say negative things about me.
A good friend is someone we trust and keep us calm with. He becomes a place to share grievances, share sorrows and not sell our secrets.
A good friend is a friend who dares to be straightforward and correct our mistakes so that we do not continue to drift into sin.
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no value for survival; Rather it is one of the few things that provides value for survival.
Friendship is not an opportunity, but a sweet responsibility.
Words of Wisdom Love
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- The greatest happiness in life is the belief that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved apart from ourselves.
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Simple in love, sincere in accepting flaws, and loyal in relationships.
- God never mistakes the gift of love to His servants because a love that comes must have a meaning and a reason.
Loving is a great gift that God gives to humans. Therefore, we need to always be grateful and keep all these gifts.
- When someone can make you the happiest person and the saddest person at the same time, that’s a real time. It is something precious.
Being loved deeply by someone who gives you strength. Loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace.
There are many things that you need to consider to choose who is the best to be a life partner, actually that’s wrong! Only the most important thing, is he who is able to guard your heart.
- When you break up, you feel very sad, but you miss other mixed feelings. The best way to deal with it is to be patient because time will give the answer to everything.
If you are truly in love, what appears on the outside won’t matter. Because the best house is a place that you build in each other’s hearts.
- Let go. Then the day after tomorrow, if he is your true love, he will definitely return in a wonderful way.
True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you endure.
- Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason why someone feels loved and believes in the goodness of others.
The most important thing in life is learning how to give love, and let it in.
Islamic Wise Words
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Whatever you spend on your family will be a source of reward from Allah. Not even a piece of food you feed your wife’s mouth.
Don’t love people who don’t love Allah. If they can leave Allah, then they will also leave you.
Whatever happens in your day, rest assured that everything is God’s will and plan for your happiness.
Be grateful for the limitations you have because it gives you the opportunity to improve.
Indeed, Allah hates every person who is good at world affairs, but stupid in matters of the hereafter.
Don’t worry about what we don’t have, but worry when you don’t really appreciate His gifts.
Abstain from envy, because envy eats good deeds as fire eats firewood.
If you want to praise someone, praise Allah. Because no human has more to give to you and is more gentle to you than Allah.
Live like a tree that is full of fruit: living by the side of the road and being stoned by people, but being rewarded with fruit.
The only reason we are present in this world is to bear witness to the oneness of Allah.
Take advantage of five things before the five things come: your youth before your old age, your health before your sickness, your well-being before your poverty, your free time before your busy life, your life before your death.
Go on with your world affairs as if you live forever. And carry out your afterlife as if you were going to die tomorrow.
The heart becomes restless and restless when we are accustomed to supposing in dealing with life’s problems.
The arrival of death does not wait until you will get better. Be a good person and wait for death.
My sin weighs heavily on me. But when I measure it with Your grace, O Allah, Your forgiveness is greater.
Don’t explain yourself to anyone, because those who like you don’t need it. And those who hate you don’t believe it.
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Words of Wisdom About Living Successfully
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- Success at a young age is sustenance, the parents who carry it and those around us are the participants. For that love and share with them.
There is no such thing as failure, only success or learning! If it is not successful, it means that we still have to learn to be successful.
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will be successful.
Young people who will have great success in the future are often taken lightly by their friends.
- It is much better for us to lose our youth than to lose our future.
A young person who will be successful will never give up until success is in his hands.
- Action while young. As long as his enthusiasm. As long as you dare. While there is plenty of time. While still a little dependent.
Don’t waste your youth. Put your energies into business, achievement, and charity.
- Spend your time exploring the world and creating. Remember you only live this youth once.
While you are young, have the experience of being like a mature adult. When you are old you have a spirit like a young person.
- Know that successful people are not as great as we imagine. They were just a little faster, a little bolder.
Success is not about age, nor is it a matter of big capital or even being smart in class. Success comes from hard work, a network of friends, strong motivation and a good attitude.
- Success is not accidental. It is made up of hard work, perseverance, study, sacrifice, and most importantly, love for what you are doing or want to do.
These great young men are those who have struggled hard to be successful since they were young because they do not want their children and their wives to live in difficulties one day.
- The 8 keys to success are passion, work, focus, motivation, ideas, self-development, serving, and perseverance.
Words of Wisdom About Hope
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There is no cure as good as hope, no boost as great as hope and no tonic as strong as wishing for something to happen tomorrow.
Optimism is a sense of trust that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Everything extraordinary in this world is created by people who never stop trying even when it seems hopeless.
Prayer will be very powerful, when there is confidence in each verse.
Hope is the ability to see that there is light even though it is all in the dark.
Don’t leave hope in other people’s hearts. Instead, leave all hope to the origin.
The power of prayer will be much more effective when it is accompanied by self-determination to improve one’s attitude to life.
There is no success without hard work. There is no success without being together. There is no convenience without prayer.
You are never given hope without being given the strength to make it real all at once. But you have to work at it anyway.
In order to make a person happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with love, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope.
We may be disappointed with what has happened, but never lose hope for a better future.
We must accept limited disappointment, but never lose hope that is unlimited.
It is impossible to progress without change. People who can’t change their way of thinking can’t change anything.
Great people are not those who can see the faults of others, but who can see their own mistakes before blaming others.
No matter how much you try, the results are still God who is pleased. No need to worry and feel defeated, if it’s maximal.
Words of Wisdom About Failure
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- Lamenting and regretting the past won’t change anything. Get up and fix any errors that exist.
You have the strength within yourself to rise above whatever is currently trying to bring you down.
- We may stumble and fall, but to get back up, it’s better than running from the battle.
In this world nothing lasts forever, as well as adversity, over time it will be replaced with happiness.
- Our success in the future is far more important than our failures in the past.
The only regret that arises from failure is regret that it does not learn from it.
- Yesterday you probably failed. But today, do your best, so that tomorrow you can achieve success.
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That success is a tiny spot on the top of the mountain of failure. So if you want to be successful, look for as many failures as possible.
- Giving up and settling into adversity will only slow down your path to success. Open your eyes, face the world, show that you can do it too.
Success goes from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Behind failure there are two advantages, namely the advantage to learn to find other ways and the advantage to strengthen mentally.
Failure destroys pride, failure to awaken intelligence, and failure leads to maturity.
- A defeat may be due to 1% of failures. But total defeat occurs when you decide to end the step and don’t want to learn from that failure.
If failure is like rain, and success is like the sun, then it takes both of them to see a rainbow.
- Success makes you known by people and brings many friends, while failure makes you better able to know yourself and know who your true friends are.
Your soul may be fragile when you experience failure, but it’s better than an empty soul because silence never tries.
Words of Wisdom About Gratitude
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The whole universe will not provide for greedy people’s desires. However, if you are grateful, you will feel very satisfied with what you have today.
When a country has currency, you have it for yourself too. Your currency that will never run out and go bankrupt is gratitude.
Keeping facial expression is a decoration for the poor, just as gratitude is a decoration for the rich.
When you feel pain, forget it, but remember all the forms of goodness that you have got.
Gratitude and patience are brakes for slowing down the heights, the speed of self-forgetfulness, and excess ambition.
You will feel the beauty of life when you want to be grateful for all the things that you already have.
What often makes us ungrateful is comparing ourselves to others.
What you have given should never be remembered again, but always remember what you have received and always be grateful for it.
Know what life means, because with it you can feel true happiness. Life is about how we are grateful for everything we still have.
If you don’t find good to say about someone, it’s better to lock your lips tightly and you’ll be grateful later.
Since opening our eyes in the morning there are thousands of blessings that we have received from the creator, but we often forget. Let’s be grateful.
Whatever situation is happening, don’t forget to say gratitude, even suffering, don’t make us forget to give thanks.
Be happy as necessary, sad as necessary, love properly, hate just as much, and be grateful as much as possible.
Don’t you ever remember what you have given. But remember what you have received.
Being grateful can bring you peace of mind, because it can free yourself and your heart from the shackles of anxiety and mistakes.
Words of Wisdom From Motivators
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“We have to be meaningful to ourselves first before we become valuable people to others.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Small jobs done are better than big plans just discussed.” – Peter Marshall
“Some people dream of success, while others wake up every morning to make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga
“You can’t go back and change the beginning when you started it, but you can start over from where you are now and change the ending.” – CS Lewis
“Don’t spend your time beating walls and hoping to turn them into doors.” – Coco Canel
“You don’t have to be extraordinary to start, but you have to start to be extraordinary.” – Zig Ziglar
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama
“The world is sufficient to meet human needs, not to satisfy human greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and planning direction.” – John F. Kennedy
“Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“A thousand parents can dream, one young man can change the world.” – Soekarno
“A good life is a life inspired by love and guided by science.” – Bertrand Russell.
“Life is a dream for those who are wise, a game for those who are foolish, comedy for those who are rich, and a tragedy for those who are poor.” – Sholom Aleichem.
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life, be happy, no matter what.” – Audrey Hepburn.
“Life is not about finding yourself, life is making you yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw.
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Wise Words of World Figures
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ”—Arthur Ashe
- “Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Study as if you will live forever. ” -Mahatma Gandhi
“When you do something noble and beautiful but no one pays attention, don’t be sad. Because the sun looks beautiful every morning even though most of the audience is still sleeping. ” -John Lennon
“Don’t let the opinions of others drown out your inner voice.” -Steve Jobs
- “The highest reward for a hard worker is not what he gets from the job, but how much he develops with it.” -John Ruskin
“Never give up while you are still able to try again. There’s no end to it until you stop trying. ” -Brian Dyson
“When your desire is strong enough, you will appear to have the superhuman strength to achieve it.” – Napoleon hill
- “How foolish humans are, he destroys the present while worrying about the future, but cries in the future while remembering his past.” – Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Falling in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness” – Robert Morley
“Growth starts when we start accepting our own weaknesses.” – Jean Vanier
- “A truly great person is one who makes everyone feel great.” – GK Chesterton
“Don’t be afraid that your life will end; be afraid that your life never begins. ” – Grace Hansen
“Life is made up of 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “That opportunity is like a sunrise. If you wait too long, you can miss it. ” – William Arthur Ward
“Don’t put off your work until tomorrow, while you can do it today.” – Benjamin Franklin
Wise Words Full of Meaning
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Failure in the struggle does not necessarily mean setback.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can a person be successful without challenges.
Enjoy the trouble. Because behind that difficulty there must be convenience.
The only limit to achieving our dreams is our doubts about today. Let us move forward with active and strong conviction.
Start each day with a positive mind and a grateful heart.
There is no secret to being successful. Success can occur because of preparation, hard work, and willingness to learn from failure.
Never give up when you are still able to try again. There’s no end to it until you stop trying.
The strongest are not those who always win, but those who stay strong when they fall.
Be firm with yourself, let go of negative thoughts, and do your best. Anxiety only belongs to those who despair.
Learning is not just knowing what to do, but doing what we already know.
Let the beauty of what you love become what you do.
You can never plan for the future in the past.
Success is a journey, not a destination. Effort is often more important than results.
You are never too old to set other goals or to dream new dreams.
If the mind thinks in a believing manner, a person can do amazing things.
Words of Wisdom About Nature
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- Even when you are unfair or sadistic to nature, he still always provides what you need in life
Isn’t nature also God’s creation? Then do you want to get two sins if you destroy nature? First, the sin of destroying it, the second is the sin of not being grateful for God’s creation
- Do you know what a natural disaster means? It is a sign that nature is angry with human mistreatment
Mountains are real schools for climbers to receive education about the nature of nature
- God has created the parts of the earth in a very beautiful way. Do not hesitate! Explore every part of it, then you will undoubtedly get peace of mind from it
You will know which are true friends and which are mediocre friends from climbing. Where he is able to keep his friend’s safety apart from his own safety, a true friend
- The number of steps on your way, will determine how much pleasure you will get. Because, enjoyment will be determined by who is the goal, and the ultimate goal is the Creator
The top part is the reason for you to keep going
- There is no place more beautiful to run than nature
So that your life doesn’t fail if you are near nature, then eat and sleep in his arms
- To feel what you have never felt, and to know what you have never known, then you need to climb mountains. Because there will be new things that the mountain teaches to every climber
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Besides experience, adventure will also bring you together with another family
- Nature has lived for millions of years so that it is wise enough to teach you various lives beyond the people you think are smart
If nature is fierce enough for you to conquer, try to fight it with humility, not violence
- Nature is a mother like everyone, because she is able to become a school that teaches her children about various lives to give new enthusiasm
If you have never been stranded in a lush valley, it is a sign that you have never seen how magnificent the earth you are treading on.
- If you were to destroy nature, then where would you get food and shelter?
Words of Wisdom About Family
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Work hard and never give up when you are young; is an investment of happiness for the family in our old age.
Don’t put too much importance on the people we just love, to neglect and forget about family.
Family is a treasure that you don’t need to look for, because family will always be there for you. Protect and love your family!
No matter where we are, our family always prays for good so that we will be kept away from badness.
Family; is a friend who is always there for us in the worst of circumstances.
When the burden is too heavy, don’t give up. God gave us a family; to try for their sake.
If we are sincere in striving for the happiness of family life, God will make it easier and show us the way.
Family is a mandate from God. Everything you do should be for family peace and happiness.
If we are sincere in striving for the happiness of family life, God will make it easier and show us the way.
You will always get love in the middle of your family, love without conditions, love that accepts you as you are.
When you want to give up, remember, there are many reasons not to give up. Friends of one of them, and especially God and family.
Family is one of the most important things we have, which will never change and is always there when needed.
The real heaven today that we can feel is our home filled with the warmth of our family.
Never give up. Especially for families. There is always a way as long as it tries and prays.
Don’t ever feel alone when you are left out because you still have friends and family who will always be there.
Love your family, because family is a unit of soul that is filled with mutual love, trust and understanding.
Words of Wisdom About Time
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- Failure and success take the same time. It remains how we use the time to achieve failure or success.
The difference between the rich and the poor lies in how they use their time.
- Time is the main asset. So be happy for anyone who is good at managing and taking advantage of time.
Everyone is all the same, has 24 hours in one day. success is determined by how well you use your time
- The most valuable ones: Health and Time. So, don’t waste time and take good care of your health.
People who do not use their time optimally are similar to those who waste their lives.
- Time is the main asset. So be happy for anyone who is good at managing and taking advantage of time.
There are only 3 things that can change a person: time, God, and himself.
- One of the characteristics of successful people is to arrive on time.
People who are always on time will be able to achieve success faster than people who can never be on time.
- Change when you still have time, because maybe there will come a time when you want to change, time you will no longer have.
Don’t just wait for the right time. Since it’s not the main thing, sometimes the wrong timing can be the perfect one.
- Using time is using it according to what has been predetermined. Wasting time is wasting it without a plan and carelessly.
Time was a perpetual cycle of fate. Day and night, morning and evening, the whole year never breaks. In every turn of his fate, there are always three possibilities. Parallel, moving in unison.
- Regardless of our circumstances, want to be sad, happy, time never stops waiting. Time is still running.
It is not enough to keep yourself busy; the ants are busy. The question is, what are you busy with ?.
Javanese Words of Wisdom
“Urip iku koyo coffee, yen no iso enjoy the taste of the grill pait.” (Life is like a cup of coffee, if you can’t enjoy it all you feel is bitter)
“Grandma wes intends to kerjo iku, ojo golek perkoro, grandmother is allowed to golek fortune iku ora need golek rai.” (If you have got the job, don’t look for a case, if you are intent on looking for sustenance, don’t look for a face)
“Kudu is enthusiastic, but not ono sing encourages.” (Must be Enthusiastic Even though No One is Enthusiastic)
“Grandma Wes Onok Sukurono, Grandma Durung Teko Entenono, Grandma Wes Lungo Lalekno, Grandma Ilang Iklasno.” (If you already have it, be grateful, if you haven’t arrived, wait, if you have left, forget about it, if you lose your heart)
“Ojo dadi kang lali karo kulite nuts.” (Don’t be a person who forgets the sacrifices and help of others)
“Ra legitimately claims that Konco kenthel grandma when I awor I mean you is grundel.” (No need to confess a friend if when you meet your heart it is still stuck)
“I admit, how come you want to follow Mulyo. When Konco Ciloko was even weak. ” (Claims to be friends but just wants to be famous. When friends have problems they leave)
“Grandma said that ojo dhuwur-dhuwur. Ngko lambemu to the plane. ” (If you talk don’t be high, your mouth will get hit by a plane)
“No need to pretend to be innocent to expect me. Lek in fact your attitude is awkward. ” (There’s no need to pretend innocence in front of me. If in fact you act like a dog)
“Friends Become Love. Sampek is crazy, dreaming of rubbing your cheek. Tansah nyoto Keroso Konco Dadi Tresno. ” (Friends become love to sleep, dreams rubbing your cheeks. Like reality feels like friends become love)
“Guyon ora popo, important sing ojo fist, yo!” (It’s okay to joke, the important thing is not to lash, huh!)
“Dudu relatives, dudu sometimes, the yen dies out of circles.” (Not family, not relatives, if you die, you will lose it)
“The yen is not seeing your eyes as much as you do, ketoke kowe arep bloating on my debt.” (If I see the look in your eyes, it seems like you will owe me)
“Mergo seng gaene ngekeki chocolate will lose because zinc ngekeki set of prayer tools.” (Because the one who gives chocolate will lose to the person who gives a set of prayer tools)
“Wae duwe trailer truck, mosok kowe ora duwe trailer?” (Even a truck has a partner, how come you don’t have a partner?)
“Grandma, your girlfriend ora gelem put up your picture, maybe the wonge is in your karo raim.” (If your boyfriend doesn’t want to put up your picture, maybe he’s embarrassed by your face)
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English Words of Wisdom
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“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience ”. – Victoria Holt
(Never regret. If something is good, it’s a miracle. If it’s bad, this is a lesson)
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“No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes”. – Spongebob Squarepants
(We can’t change other people, but we can be someone’s reason to change)
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“The only failure is not to try”. – George Clooney
(The only failure is never trying)
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”. – Thomas Edison
(Many of life’s failures are those who don’t realize how close they are to success when they give up)
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“How do you spell love? You dont spell love. You feel it ”. – Piglet and Pooh
(How do we spell love? We can’t spell it. We feel it)
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“Where there is love there is life”. – Mahatma Gandhi
(Where there is love there is life)
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“Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop ”. – HL Mencken
(Love is like a war. Easy to start, but very hard to end)
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“Have ever been and I’ll never leave again, ‘Cause you are the only one. And all my friends have gone to find, another place to let their hearts collide “. – Ed Sheeran
(Never and will never go again, because you are the only one. All my friends have gone to find another place to let their hearts collide)
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“When i saw you in that dress, looking so beautiful, i don’t deserve this, darling, you look perfect tonight”. – Ed Sheeran
(When I see you in that dress, looking so beautiful. I don’t deserve this baby, you look perfect tonight)
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“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it”. – Nicholas Sparks
(Love is like the wind, we can’t see it, but we can feel it)
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This is a collection of the best life wisdom words that can be a source of reflection and self-reflection for the reader. Hopefully these wise words can become torches and guides that illuminate the journey of life
Wisdom is a great source of power. It’s through others’ stories of failure and success that we learn the most. It’s through their experiences of things we have yet to witness that feeds us the knowledge we need to fly high, to build upon what we already know.
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There is little in life that a wise mind can’t conquer. And it’s the sage-like guidance that inspires us to make our life that much better.
Here are 19 insightful quotes from people who lived exceptional lives.
1. Be confident in yourself.
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
2. Always be looking forward.
“You can never plan the future by the past.” —Edmund Burke
3. Live a life of purpose.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Be brave. Be bold.
“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” —Dalai Lama
5. Use your time wisely.
“Lost time is never found again.” —Benjamin Franklin
6. Value yourself for who you are.
“He that respects himself is safe from others.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. Hone your skills.
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Keep your head up.
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” —Robert Frost
9. Learn to speak well and listen better.
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
10. Have fun. You’ll accomplish more.
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” —Elbert Hubbard
11. Build genuine connections.
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela
12. Give more than you take.
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” —C. S. Lewis
13. Seek your purpose.
“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” —John D. Rockefeller
14. Pique your curiosity.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain
15. Search for more meaning.
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle
16. Unleash your personal momentum.
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
17. Focus on the future.
“When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” —George C. Marshall
18. Excel in your own way.
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke
19. Don’t forget to live.
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
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- If you want to change your life, you’re going to have to start taking 100 percent responsibility for it, and complaining is the hobbyhorse of a victim mentality.
Sam Bennett, Start Right Where You Are
Complaining Quotes - If there is at least one person you’ve helped in life, then your life has been worthwhile.
L. Sydney Abel
Make A Difference Quotes - Life gives back what you ask from it.
Israelmore Ayivor, Believe and Achieve
Famous Quotes about Life
Life is not just about what you achieve, it’s about who you are and how you live. Maggie Huffman, Whoops! I Forgot to Achieve My Potential
Inspirational Quotes- If you want something out of life you have to go out there and get it, because it is not just going to be given to you.
Kelvin Waites, Hit’em Before They Hit You
Kelvin’s words are ones that we all know. We are the ones who have to take action if we want our dreams to become a reality!
Motivational Quotes - “Gratitude is. . . the emotional expression of appreciation for what is present in your life.”
Janeen Latini, Love to Lead, Lead to Love
Gratitude Quotes
It is intuitive that people who smile and cut out negativity from their life will live longer, healthier lives.
Deena B. Chopra; KC Harry, Happiness 365
Smile- “When it comes to teaching a child about all he needs to know in life, there is no better person than the child’s parent.”
Aidin Safavi, Homeschooling: for Beginners
Parents - I believe that contentment in life begins with having a thankful heart.
Daniella Whyte, 365 Days of Thanking God
Thanksgiving - May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures. May all life’s passing seasons bring the best to you and yours.
Irish Blessing - “You are in charge of yourself and your life, and nobody else has the right to take advantage of you or your hard work!”
Sarah Goldberg, Manipulative People
Words of Encouragement - How can you change your life? It all starts with belief. Belief is an intangible emotion that determines the course of everyone’s life.
Rahul Badami, Self Help
Quotes about Change - Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT.
Bill Gates
There are always winners and losers. But losing is all in your attitude. How do you see the loss, do you give up or do you start again. We all have a choice.
School QuotesAspirational items are the props for a pretend version of our lives; we need to clear out this clutter, so that we have the time, energy, and space to realize our true selves and our full potential. Francine Jay, The joy of less
Comforting Quotes - Practicing inclusive awareness is essential to living a productive life through consciousness.Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul
Motivational Quotes About Life - In life’s ring let’s be clowns; Laugh and sing at ups and downs!
Wilhelmina Stitch, Clowns
Laughter Quotes - “Every aspect of life has rules, and money is no exception. Come to grips with those rules and you can become very, very rich.”
Andrea Plos, Sources of Wealth
Money Quotes - “. . . communication skills are so important. These skills not only affect your home life but also your ability to make friends.”
Gregory Davidson, Communication
Communication Quotes - Life doesn’t exist to meet our expectations.
Jerry Dorsman and Bob Davis, How to Achieve Peace of Mind
Attitude Quotes - “You should note that the ability to think positively plays a very central role in our state of well-being as well as our quality of life.”
Angel Greene, Self Help
Positive Thinking Quotes - Making a profound difference in one specific child’s life is more powerful than describing the plight of a million anonymous people.
Dale Losch, A Better Way
We all make a difference in not only the lives of children but also in other people’s lives. A kind word, words of encouragement can make more difference than we can imagine.
Children - The ego is the I-thought and the true I is the Self. If a person has a deep urge to expand, if he, or she, knows that there is much more to life, then the ego must be integrated.
Dimitar Petrov, Man of No Ego
Ego - Your life is a crafted narrative written by a good God, who is working toward your supreme good.
Max Lucado
Some people say how can God be good with all the issues in the world. However, it is not God who created our issues, we did! We make choices everyday and then live with the results of those choices. God does work to bring good into our lives even when we make the wrong choices.
God Is Good - The parts of your life which you’re not happy or satisfied with are often the parts where you’re probably not being true to yourself.
Billy Anderson, Your Comfort Zone Is Killing You
Be Yourself - “The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.”
Kahlil Gibran
Love - Living a more positive life comes down to attitude and action.
Catherine Pulsifer, Living A More Positive Life
Positive Life - Your life should be a walking book of righteous living, whereas with no Bible in hand people who see you know what you stand for.
Edward A. Bradley. Fatherhood
Great Quotes about Life - Life does not occur in compartments. Whatever impacts you personally will leak into your professional life, and vice versa.
Marlene Chism, Stop Workplace Drama
Quote of The Day - The way out is to build the life you want, despite anxiety or depression�s best efforts to convince you otherwise.
John Crawford, Anxiety Relief
Moving Forward - “Turning 50 is an important event in a person’s life. It is at time that should be commemorated and celebrated.”
Mark Myers, The Ultimate Guide to 50th Birthday Party Ideas
Birthday - “Whether it is in our personal or our communal life, we must always begin by asking what we can do, not what others should do.”
John B. Izzo, Stepping Up
Quotes To Live By - “Seek who you are and what you can do to better yourself and to better all that come into your life.”
M. Lee
Personal Development - Music frames our entire lifespan. It shapes humans from a very early age.
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia
Music - Other animals have their own perspectives on life, and being able to see things through their eyes makes us see the world differently.Eva Meijer, Animal Languages
Animal - It is all about understanding ourselves and this mysterious gift of life that has been entrusted to us.
Alister McGrath
Appreciation - “Life is a learning process, and you have the opportunity to make a change right here and now.
Lori Hill, 5 Gifts to Give Yourself
Never stop learning, no matter what your age!
Learning - Letting go isn’t simple or straightforward. It’s a dynamic, lifelong process.
Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go - Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
Letting Go
Our entire lives we are learning. How we choose to apply the lessons learned is up to each one of us. - Our life is a road trip with a starting point that is supposed to lead to a final destination. It’s up to us and how we deal with the road we must travel on whether or not we make it to our final destination.
Rebecca Johnson, Reflection
Road Trip - Life is full of surprises, and some remain in your heart for eternity.
Kemy Loree Derlango, Life
Inspirational Sayings - You only have one life so you might as well live it to its absolute fullest capacity� right now.
David Deslauriers, Kyle Deslauriers The Stigma of Mental Illness
Life Goals - Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Taking Risks - Imagine the people you can truly help by living your best life.
Fran Curcio, Simple Life Lessons from a Soul Sister now Grown
Best - Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
Kevin Kruse
Giving
Our culture says you can have it all. However, our lives are more meaningful when we help others. It is not all about you! - Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
Vivian Komori
Funny
While this quote may seem funny there is much wisdom in it. Do you get back up when you fail and try again? - If you think it and it is kind, then say it; if you say it and it is kind, then live it; if you live it, it will live.
John R. Seader
Live Life - Asking questions – big ones and granular ones – is a practice you would do well to hard-wire into your daily life.
Joanna Barsh, Grow Wherever You Work
Daily - Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin
These words go without saying! Don’t waste your days, none of us know what tomorrow brings.
Quotes about Books - Your happiness and the quality of your life depend on you.
Jean Renee Porter, A New Day
Happiness - “If the truth be told, small amounts of stress are actually helpful in our everyday life.”
Robert Gallagher, Stress Management
Stress - You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul�s doing.
Marie Carmichael Stopes
Beautiful - The words of the Bible have life! God works through these words. The Bible is to God what a surgical glove is to the surgeon.
Max Lucado
Quotes About God’s Word The Bible - Joy is a choice – a deliberate, conscious choice. That choice is available to us each day.
Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart
The minute we get out of bed, our attitude will determine the type of day we will have. And we are the ones who choose!
Joy - Now the key to experiencing an extraordinary life every day is to grow in your relationship with God.
Joel Osteen, Fresh Start
Relationship - I see new beauty everywhere; thank God for a world so fair!
Catherine Pulsifer, Start and End Your Day with Optimism
Thank God - Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
E. B. White
Simple Life - What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves.
Tony Robbins, Unlimited Power
Cute - “Life is meant to be a vibrant, deeply felt, growing mosaic of long, meaningful moments.”
Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto
Meaningful - Love, I will argue, is the rapture we feel for people and things that inspire in us the hope of an indestructible grounding for our life.
Simon May, Love: A History
Quotes about Love and Life - Pessimistic views kill inspiration and create excuses for the lives those people live.
David Stone; Sheila Stone, Live Beyond Your Potential
Excuses - You live in a family, and your family is your training ground for learning to get along with other people in life.
James J. Crist Ph.D., Siblings
Family - If you really know what you want out of life, it’s amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.
John Goddard
Amazing - Players and coaches need to develop lifetime habits of learning, because life is about learning.
Don Meyer, Basketball Skills & Drills
While this quote may have been said in relation to basketball it applies to each and every one of our lives!
Basketball - Putting off traveling can be a risky decision. Many negative things can happen in life that can make traveling more difficult.
Chris A. Baird, Travel: 98 Best Travel Tips
Travel Quotes - Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle
Good Quotes - A person’s quality of life isn’t only determined by the words they say but also the thoughts they think.
Sunday Adelaja, False and True Understanding of Love
Quality - Everything you learn to do, is a tool within the toolbox that you draw upon to get you through life.
Nick Maley, The Do or Do Not Outlook
Cool - How you live your life is totally up to you. It’s not dependent on your circumstances. It’s dependent on your choices.
Joel Osteen, Every Day a Friday
Choices - We may have achieved a certain level of success, but there are always new challenges, other mountains to climb.
Joel Osteen, Daily Readings from Become a Better You
Success
Joel’s words remind me of the saying, “Never rest on your laurels.” We all have more potential to learn, to become the best we can be! - Learning from life is much more beneficial than learning from a book.
Joan Erikson
Quotes on Life Lessons - Don’t judge people harshly as they try to sort out their lives. If you’re easy on others, chances are you’ll be easy on yourself.
Thomas Moore, Soul Mates
How easy it is to judge others, to forget our own failures. Rather than judging others try to understand! You also are not perfect!
Judgemental - It often dawns too late that we have only one life, only one path, and the choices we make become the story line of our lives.
Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self
Thought For The Day - No matter where we are in life, God has more in store. He never wants us to quit growing.
Joel Osteen, Daily Readings from Become a Better You
Gods Plan - Deliberately take the responsibility to change your life because you can; yes you can!
Okorote Emmanuel, Don’t Take Care; Take The Chance!
Responsibility - In every dream journey there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion
Dream - Like no other time in life, pregnancy is a rare moment when parents have the chance to directly affect the health and future of their child.
Jillian Michaels, Yeah Baby!
Baby - Time can’t be bought in a store, and it’s one of the most sought-after commodities of modern life.
Rachel Jonat, The Joy of Doing Nothing
How true these words are. Time is something we all have the same amount given to us each day, but the difference is how we use it.
Time - How a leader deals with the circumstances of life tells you many things about his character.
John C. Maxwell, The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
Character - By understanding that life is created from the inside out, we are empowered to create a beautiful life.
Joseph Bailey, The Speed Trap
Life Is Beautiful - To change your life, to improve your business, you must think, feel and behave differently.
Ross Wilson, The Happy Agent
People Change - …. having a purpose in life is so important in Japanese culture that our idea of retirement simply doesn’t exist there.
Hector Garc�a; Francesc Miralles, Ikigai
A purpose – the reason you get up every day. Days are meaningless with no purpose. No matter what your age there has to be a reason – find your passion, help others, make a difference in someone’s day. You are here for a reason!
Purpose - God will bless us with peace and comfort when we learn to accept the troubles that come into our lives.
Julia Audrina Carrington, Comfort for Today
God Blessing - It can make life much easier to be able to learn from people who have already mastered what you want to learn.
Rachel Rofe, Take Control Of Your Life
Experience - What you do in life does make a difference to you and those people who look up to you.
Joseph Woodley, No Generals In the House
Inspiring Others - Life is about sharing the best, what we got. Life excels through uniqueness of everything in anything. Treat every failure as the valuable experience, and the stepping stone for success. The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
Albert Einstein, Art of Living
Failure - Life gives meaning to death; but it could also be said that death gives meaning to life, just as the silences in music give meaning to the line of sound.
The American Ecclesiastical Review,
Silence - The foundation for lasting happiness and fulfilment is finding and living your life’s purpose.
Rod Stryker, The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, prosperity and freedom
Purpose - We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
John F. Kennedy
Thank You - Your mind controls and determines your life achievements. Success – both in personal and professional life – depends on the quality of your mind.
Benny Zhang, Manifestation Success Secrets
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In life, we constantly seek new sources of wisdom in order to help us understand this journey a little bit better. Life may not always give you what you want, but it always gives you what you need, and quotes from famous philosophers, musicians, and authors can provide you with the understanding that you seek. While the truest wisdom comes from within ourselves, sometimes you just need a little inspiration and knowledge from others.
Life can seem impossible to understand at times – after all, we all just sort of showed up here and have to learn as we go along. We may not ever have all the answers, but we can at least try to gain as much wisdom as possible during our time here. Contemplation and quiet introspection can offer a great deal of insight about life, and even though we may not ever totally understand our purpose or place here on Earth, we can all benefit from the knowledge shared below.
We have gathered some of what we believe to be the wisest quotes out there, so that you may continue to learn and grow each and every day you spend here on Earth. Keep in mind, we couldn’t possibly fit all our favorite quotes into this article, but the following contain great wisdom and perspective about life, love, happiness, and more.
Here are 100 of the wisest quotes of all time:
1. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee
2. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. ‘Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” He replied, “Nothing!” However, Buddha said, let me tell you what I lost:Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old, Age and Death.”‘
4. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
5. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato
6. “Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
7. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
8. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
9. “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
10. Man: ‘I want happiness’
Buddha: First remove”I”,this is ego. Then remove “Want”, this is desire. Finally all that remains is “happiness.”
11. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
12. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung
13. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee
14. “Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” – Bruce Lee
15. “Never let school interfere with your education.” – Mark Twain
16. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
17. “It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
18. “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” – Maya Angelou
19. “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” – Morticia Addams
20. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before your death.” – Osho
21. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
22. “He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” – Lao Tzu
23. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Harold Whitman
24. “You have enemies? Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill
25. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
26. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein
27. “Loneliness is and will always be the most abundant source of human experience.” – Swami Vivekanand
28. “You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
29. “The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.” – Robin Sharma
30. “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” – Christopher McCandless
31. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
32. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
33. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
34. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
35. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry van Dyke
36. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey
37. “Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau
38. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretzky
39. “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
40. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
41. “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” – Ellen Goodman
42. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
43. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
44. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
45. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” – Walt Disney Company, Mulan
46. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
48. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Gautama Buddha
49. “The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
50. “The truth is, everyone’s going to hurt you. You’ve just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
51. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
52. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
53. “A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle”. – Buddha
54. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Ancient Chinese Proverb
56. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” — Mahatma Gandhi
57. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” — Mahatma Gandhi
58. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
59. “People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.” – Mother Teresa
60. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa
61. “Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” – Benjamin Franklin
62. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
63. “Never be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself.” – Robert Frost
64. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” – Wayne Dyer
65. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Confucius
66. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
67. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – JK Rowling
68. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
69. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.” – Eckhart Tolle
70. “You yourself are the eternal energy of the Universe. You didn’t come into this world, you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.” – Alan Watts
71. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot
72. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
73. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
74. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
75. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
76. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
77. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” – Wayne Dyer
78. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”— Albert Einstein
79. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
80. “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
81. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
82. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” ~ Steve Jobs
83. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
84. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
85. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
86. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Lou Holtz
87. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” Dalai Lama
88. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
89. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
90. “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ? Charles Bukowski
91. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” – Will Smith
92. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
93. “Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Kiss slowly, play hard, love deeply, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. Life is too short to be anything but happy.” – Unknown
94. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain
95. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” – Marianne Williamson
96. “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
97. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
98. “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius…” – Steve Jobs
99. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” – Brené Brown
100. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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