Wise Quotes
Most popular wise quotes
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy Is to forget the right way. And forget that the going is easy.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Please all and you please none.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to be fear, only to love.
It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always in time for the next.
How instructive is a star! It can teach us from afar just how small each other are.
One paramount truth our society smothers in petty concern with position and pelf: It isn't enough to exasperate others; you've got to remember to gladden yourself.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.
My 1 repeated learning in life: "There Are No Adults." Everyone's making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it.
All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
All philosophy in two words—sustain and abstain.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity, and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a two-thirds majority.
To do well, you must figure out which arguments you must never try to win.
