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Words of Wisdom /Thoughts to Live By
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
The middle course is the best.
Cleobulus
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca
Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
John Milton
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Menander
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart.
William Hazlitt
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
Dealing with People
You must look into other people as well as at them. Lord Chesterfield
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them.
J. G. Holland
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Thomas Edwards
Hear the meaning within the word.
William Shakespeare
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness — these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity.
Burmese Proverb
Kind words are the music of the world.
F. W. Faber
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Denis Diderot
Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
Doris M. Smith
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
Look to be treated by others
as you have treated others.
Publius Syrus
Success in life, in anything,
depends upon the number of persons
that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas Carlyle
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others.
J. Petit Senn
The more you say, the less people remember.
François Fénelon
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Thackeray
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
Thomas Campbell
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George Eliot
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
Learn to regard the souls around you as parts of some grand instrument. It is for each of us to know the keys and stops, that we may draw forth the harmonies that He sleeping in the silent octaves.
Anonymous
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
Menander
The less people speak of their greatness,
the more we think of it.
Lord Bacon
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.
Johann Casper Lavater
Men are more mindful of wrongs than of benefits.
Proverb
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.
J. Petit Senn
Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults.
Chinese Proverb
All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES.
-- Nike ad
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
-- Oprah Winfrey
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
-- Bette Davis
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
-- Wayne Dyer
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-- Lucretius
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
-- Napoleon Hill
Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do the things you need to do when you need to them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do them!
-- Zig Ziglar
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
-- Janis Joplin
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
-- Louis E. Boone
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
-- Mark Victor Hansen
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
-- Mary Manin Morrissey
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
Failure is success if we learn from it.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes
Fears are like a mirage. It only happens to be there due to our imagination or reflections of possibilities. The nearer we get to it, the more it disappears.
-- Samuel Adinoyi
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
Heart in champions has to do with the depth of your motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure.
-- Bill Russell
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
-- Bertie C. Forbes
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-- Anne Frank
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a "must" and "want."
-- Jim Rohn
I am only one; but still I am one. i cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Helen Keller
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
-- Anthony Robbins
I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore;they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50,and most people never make it all.
-- Brian Tracy
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
-- Brittany Renée
I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
-- Bob Hope
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
-- Ivan Turgenev
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
-- Stephen Covey
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
-- Jane Smiley
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
-- Stephen R. Covey
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
-- Jim Rohn
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
-- Bruce Barton
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
-- George E. Allen
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
-- Zig Ziglar
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
-- Andrew Carnegie
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
-- Earl Nightingale
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-- Pamela Vaull Starr
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-- Winston Churchill
The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says,"I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life.
-- Jim Rohn
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
–– Chinese proverb
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
-- Epictetus
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
-- Mike Ditka
The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.
-- Lloyd Dobens
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
-- Dale Carnegie
The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.
-- Adlin Sinclair
The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
-- Anthony Robbins
The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.
-- John C. Maxwell
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
-- Orison Swett Marden
To find out what you love to do demands a great deal of intelligence; because, if you are afraid of not being able to earn a livelihood, or of not fitting into this rotten society, then you will never find out. But, if you are not frightened, if you refuse to be pushed into the groove of tradition by your parents, by your teachers, by the superficial demands of society, then there is a possibility of discovering what it is you really love to do. So, to discover, there must be no fear of not surviving.
-- Krishnamurti
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
-- Foster C. Mcclellan
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
-- Vince Poscente
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
-- Les Brown
We are all drivers of our own destinies but the ultimate is, to whom we surrender our selves to be driven by.
-- Samuel Adinoyi
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
-- Zig Ziglar
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
-- Greg Anderson
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
-- Les Brown
When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it.
-- Jim Rohn
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-- Hugh White
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
-- Brian Tracy
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain... Alexander Pope
What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
General Douglas MacArthur
The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Noah Porter
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from Christian Leadership World)
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
(from Big Dog's Quotes)
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Horace
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow
I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Publius Syrus
A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
James Thomas
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Napoleon Bonaparte
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
H. H. Vreeland
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Ovid
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
What you cannot enforce,Do not command.
Sophocles
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Philip Armour
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
Latin Proverb
Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Thomas Carlyle
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
Polybius
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance......Atwood H. Townsend
Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.....Bhagavad Gita
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
....Eric Hoffer
There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.....
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture....Lionel Trilling
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and nonpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication....Logan Pearsall Smith
Patience means self-suffering. Mahatma Gandhi....Spiritual Leader
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. ...Thomas Carlyle
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a cone.......Henry James
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self....Benjamin Franklin
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self... Blum Ralph
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development....Confucius
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was.....Elias Canetti
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.....Francis H. Bradley
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of....George Eliot
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. ..George Gurdjieff
One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self....James A. Froude
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.... Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it. ..John Morely
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.....John Updike
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.....Leigh Hunt
Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again....Iykestar Enuosa
Know yourself, master yourself; conquest of self is most gratifying....Iykestar
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority...Tom Hopkins
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us..........William Wordsworth
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficult.....B. C. Forbes
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.....Brian Tracy
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self....Elwyn rooks
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement......Foster C. Mcclellan
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others......George Shinn
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. ....J. Donald Walters
We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker. Jeffrey P. Davidson
I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.....Jessie Hill
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.....Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me....John Gotti
We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is......John Naisbitt
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.....Napoleon Hill
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after..........Napoleon Hill
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimi........Paula Nelson
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.........Plato BC
Your real self -- the ''I am I'' -- is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm......Robert Collier
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish......Sam Walton
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbours......Samuel Smiles
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs. iyjk Unknown
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it........Theodore Roosevelt
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense......Thomas A. Bennett
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain......Thomas Jefferson
