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