Wise Quotes - Page 7

• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Change, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Money, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

  Michael Hyatt

  Criticism, Fool, Advantage

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• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Inspiring

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• We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.

  Robert Reich

  Love, Growing Up, Integrity

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• Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Happy, Silly

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  Get mad, then get over it.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Moving On, Military

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Men, Democracies Have

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Running

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• A small act is worth a million thoughts.

  Ai Weiwei

  Motivational, Wisdom, Thoughtful

  "Meet the most interesting person in China" by Kathleen E. McLaughlin, www.pri.org. June 23, 2009.

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• The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Simple, Men

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• Today is the best day to accomplish something.

  Jon Jones

  Today, Accomplish

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• You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes.

  Rick Warren

  Smart, Shoes, Humanity

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 28, 2013

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Meaningful

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Men, Talking

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, “I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win.” The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, “I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

  Jon Gordon

  Dog, Mean, Fighting

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.50, John Wiley & Sons

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Past

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Writing

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• A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

  Roy H. Williams

  Wisdom, Mistake, Smart

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• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Questions And Answers, Want, Reasonable

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