In
this posting you will find my selection of the very best wisdom quotes, from
nearly a decade of collecting them. They range from the profound to the
intriguing to the just plain funny.
One
way or the other, you’ll surely find many of them to be thought-provoking and
entertaining.
Wisdom Quotes
1. You
can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen
2. Perfection
is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The
richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
4. You
miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky
5.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something
else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon
6. You
must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi
7. When
hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but
wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
8. The
third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The
second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The
first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
9. To
the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a
nail.
—Abraham Maslow
10.
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle
11. A
wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian
12. Do
not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho
13. Watch
your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
14. Everyone
is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas
closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
15. What
we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little
consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
16. The
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new
eyes.
—Marcel Proust
17. Work
like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no
one’s watching
—Unknown Author
18. Try
a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like
it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson
19. Even
if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
20. People
often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why
we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
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