Wisdom
Every now and then, I’ll stumble across an insightful comment from someone I respect that’s so good that I’ll write it down. Sooner or later, you’ll find many of those here! Happy reading — and please, if any of them really move you, write them down and carry them with you, because to find a North Star and then turn away from it is a waste of good inspiration.
1. “Knowledge is selfish, but Wisdom is generous.”
— Gary Chester
2. “You cannot teach a man anything. You can only lead him to discover it within himself.”
— Galileo Galilei
3. “ ‘If only’. Those have to be the two saddest words in the world!”
— Mercedes Lackey
4. “Be curious, not judgmental.”
— Walt Whitman
5. “There’s still time to change the road you’re on.”
— Robert Plant
6. “There can be no great accomplishments without risk.”
— Neil Armstrong
7. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone CAN help someone.”
— Ronald Reagan
8. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
— Frank Zappa
9. “Sometimes, you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
— Carrie Fisher
10. “Live for the moments that you can’t put into words.”
— Atieno Marie
11. “Whatever I am looking for is already within me. I am the master of my own reality.”
— Tramaine Cato
12. “A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.”
— John Barrymore
13. “I would rather regret the things I have done than the ones I have not.”
— Lucille Ball
14. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
— Maya Angelou
15. “If you haven’t any charity in your heart, then you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
— Bob Hope
16. “When your out-go exceeds your income, your upkeep predicts your downfall.”
— Abraham Francis Basher
17. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on!”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
18. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
— Muhammad Ali
19. “I find that I miss 100% of the shots I don’t take.”
— Wayne Gretzky
20. “Look, you’re either going to win the game, or you’re going to learn how to play better.”
— Ethan Hawke
21. “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you that you’re nuts!”
— Larry Elliott
22. “Just watch your pennies. The dollars will take care of themselves.”
— Greg Robinson, Sr.
23. “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.”
— Pablo Picasso
24. “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”
— Serena Williams
25. “The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”
— Robert Plant
26. “Be silent, if you choose, but when it is necessary, speak — and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27. “This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
— William Shakespeare
28. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Ghandi
29. “Some days, you’re the bluebird, and some days, you’re the statue. it’s just the nature of things.”
— John Paul Jones
30. “There are only two ways to live life: as if everything around us is a miracle, or as if nothing ever is.”
— Albert Einstein
31. “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.”
— Mary Davis
32. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
— Epictetus
33. “Try to be the rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
— Maya Angelou
34. “What you seek is seeking you.”
— Rumi
35. “The secret to happiness is freedom… and the secret to freedom is courage.”
— Thucydides
36. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Hellen Keller
37. “In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.”
— C. G. Jung
38. “We do not see the world as it is; we see it as WE are.”
— Anais Nin
39. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep the streets as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or as Shakespeare wrote poetry.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
40. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, while an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
— Winston Churchill
41. “The significant problems of today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them”
— Albert Einstein
42. “Relationships are where we go to heal the unresolved pains of our childhoods.”
— Laura Derr
43. “Do what you can with what you have, and start right where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
44. “When you judge another person, you judge God.”
— Bruce D. Schneider
45. “Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.”
— Anais Nin
46. “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
— Erica Jong
47. “Don’t carry a grudge. While you’re carrying a grudge, the other guy is out dancing.”
— Buddy Hackett
48. “Hit ‘em where they ain’t.”
— Wee Willie Keeler
49. “Size matters not.”
50. “Do or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
51. “Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.”
52. “Fear is the path to The Dark Side.”
— Yoda
53. “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself!”
— William Faulkner
54. “There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful, now. I might as well take a nap!’”
— Carrie Fisher
55. “Empty pockets have never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
— Norman Vincent Peale
56. “You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about.”
— Mark Victor Hansen
57. “Put your future in good hands. Your own.”
— Mark Victor Hansen