Being Smart Quotes

• Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

  Alan Alda

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Smart, Time Keeping, Mma

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• The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Smart, Believe, Dumb

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.127, Dial Press

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• One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fake Friends, Smart, Enemy

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• Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

  Wally Lamb

  Smart, Differences, Enough

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• You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

  Gabrielle Union

  Smart, Lasts, Knows

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• You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Smart, Easy Days, Easy

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Smart, Thoughtful, People

  "Ashton Kutcher Channels Steve Jobs In The Best 'Teen Choice Awards' Acceptance Speech Ever". Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech for Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Smart, Thoughtful, Generous

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• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Smart, Book, College

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Happy, Smart

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• It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

  Alan Alda

  Wise, Smart, Being Wise

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, 1980.

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• There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

  John Green

  Smart, Answers, Enough

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.125, Penguin

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Teacher

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

  Tony Alessandra

  Smart, Intelligent, Advice

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Smart, Thoughtful, World

  "Ashton Kutcher Channels Steve Jobs In The Best 'Teen Choice Awards' Acceptance Speech Ever". Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech for Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2013.

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  Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

  Natalie Portman

  Love, Girly, Women

  "Biography: Natalie Portman". www.thecinemaholic.com. January 20, 2018.

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