Wisdom

• Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. -H.W. Byles
• A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. -Bernard de Fontenelle
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison
• On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. -William R. Inge
• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
• If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy
• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. -Jacques Prévert
• Goals are dreams with deadlines. -Diana Scharf Hunt
• If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? -Sydney J. Harris
• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. -George MacDonald

• How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception. -Alfred de Musset
• Tap into people’s dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won’t lift a finger. -Thomas Friedman
• Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. -Mill Smith
• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. -Wayne Dyer
• The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude. -Robert H. Schuller
• It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. -Claude Bernard (1813-1878 French Physiologist)
• A problem is your chance to do your best. -Duke Elington
• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt
• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. -Francis Maitland Balfour
• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. -Eddie Cantor

• If I am not for myself, who will be? -Pirke Avoth
• Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequence of today's decisions. -Gary Ryan Blair
• Real success in life means the individual's conquest of himself, it means how he has bettered himself not how he has bettered his fortune. The great question of life is not What have I? but What am I? -William George Jord
• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. -Donald A.Adams
• When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. -Roy Disney
• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. -Edward Wallis Hoch
• Everbody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. -George Moore
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius
• The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Allan K. Chalmers
• Do not wait for extrordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. -Jean Paul Richter

• People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -Walter Savage Landor
• Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age. -Christopher Morley
• 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. -Mother Teresa
• It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibly. -Albert Einstein
• Everything you are against weakens you. Everythingt you are for empowers you. -Wayne Dyer
• Patience and preservence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. -John Quincy Adams
• I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step, if that is of no avail will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at
• The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself. -Brian Tracy
• Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. -L. J. Peter
• Sometimes the best gain is to lose. -George Herbert

• To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. -Jean de La Bruyere
• No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. -Doug Horton
• Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. -Richard M. Nixon
• Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong. -Lord Mansfield
• When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles. -Edgar Watson Howe
• The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. -Ibn Gabirol
• Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age. -Christopher Morley

• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. -Kin Hubbard
• Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. -Aristotle
• Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber
• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. -Aristotle
• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -W.W. Ziege
• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. -John Stuart Mills
• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers
• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. -Sally Field
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. -Mark Twain
• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. -Ben Stein

• If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. -Gelett Burgess
• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. -Jean de La Fontaine
• I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. -Mark Twain
• No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. -Antoine de Saint
• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard
• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. -Bruce Jenner
• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith
• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Openheim
• I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. -Javan
• I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. -James Gordon Bennett

• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. -Roderick Thorp
• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. -Frank A. Clark
• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -Lou Erickson
• A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Worrying is like a rocking chair it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere. - Van Wilder
• A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. -Benjamin Franklin
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Mahfouz Naguib
• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. -Doug Larson
• Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. -Bergen Evens

• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. -William Cowper
• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippman
• The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. -William Hutton
• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -Jack London
• Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. -Elmer G. Letterman
• The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Allan K. Chalmers
• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. -Martha Washington
• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -Margaret Thatcher
• If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. -Albert Einstein
• Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. -Martin Buxbaum

• It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed. -Storm Jameson
• One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck. -Carl Zuckmayer
• Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some respect. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. -Pablo Picasso
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland
• 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
• 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. - Frank Outlaw
• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. -Vernon Cooper
• Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.--William Cowper
• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. -Tao Te Ching
• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. -William Saroyan

• Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--this is not easy. -Aristotle
• Do not ask for fulfillment in all your life, but for patience to accept frustration. Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes. Do not ask for more, before saying "Thank You" for what you have already received. -Brenda Short
• Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. -Ann Flanders
• When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. -Billy Graham
• Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. -The Serenity Prayer
• The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. -Thomas Szasz
• Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. -Doug Larson
• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. -George Bernard Shaw
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland

• The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom. -Frank Whitmore
• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. -Vernon Cooper
• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. -Sandra Carey
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan
• Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.
• It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. -Robert Green Ingersoll
• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. -Pierre Abelard
• We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. -Michel de Montaigne
• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson
• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. -Elbert Hubbard