Wise Words Quotes - Page 27

• One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

  Odell Shepard

  Fire, Hands, Feet

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• I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Worship, Undoing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smart, Vow, Snaps

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics

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• To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

  Hippocrates

  Funny Inspirational, Political, Sometimes

  " A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources" by H. L. Mencken, 1942.

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• You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Action, Revealing

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• Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

  George Ross Kirkpatrick

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

  Robert Breault

  Progress, Hours, Minutes

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• Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

  Robert Breault

  Heart, Fate, Soul

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• Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

  Patch Adams

  Happiness, Success, Graduation

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• What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Effort, Wholeheartedly

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

  John W. Gardner

  Karma, Men, Reckoning

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• Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quality

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• Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

  Laozi

  Rivers, Taoism, Mountain

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• I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

  Bill Veeck

  Kids, Mind, Trying

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• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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• For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Morning, Moving

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Confidence, Morning, Bed

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• We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

  Frederick William Faber

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.28

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• You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

  Albie Sachs

  Wise, Running, Want

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• A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Wise, Pieces, Substitutes

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• Walk lightly through life.

  Guy Finley

  Wise, Walks

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Secret of Letting Go”, p.259, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

  Israel Zangwill

  Wise, Analogies, May

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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