Words of Wisdom

Quotes adapted from AZ Quotes

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Paulo Coelho

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Ai Weiwei

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

A. D. Gordon

The more you know the less you need to say.

Jim Rohn

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Mary Browne

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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

The trouble is you think you have time.

Gautama Buddha

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Paulo Coelho

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

John C. Maxwell

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

George R. R. Martin

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Khalil Gibran

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Elvis Presley

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Henry Ford

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

David McCullough

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Helen Rowland

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato