Timeless Wisdom: Profound Quotes for Life's Journey
Gain insights from wise quotes that offer timeless wisdom and deep reflections on life, society, and personal growth.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.Collection: Wisdom
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.Collection: Wisdom
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.Collection: Wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.Collection: Wisdom
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.Collection: Wisdom
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.Collection: Wisdom
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.Collection: Wisdom
Plodding wins the race.Collection: Wisdom
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.Collection: Wisdom
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.Collection: Wisdom
Commitment is an act, not a word.Collection: Wisdom
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.Collection: Wisdom
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.Collection: Wisdom
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.Collection: Wisdom
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.Collection: Wisdom
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.Collection: Wisdom
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.Collection: Wisdom
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?Collection: Wisdom
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.Collection: Wisdom
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.Collection: Wisdom
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.Collection: Wisdom
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.Collection: Wisdom
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Collection: Wisdom
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.Collection: Wisdom
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.Collection: Wisdom
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.Collection: Wisdom
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.Collection: Wisdom
Slow and steady wins the race.Collection: Wisdom
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.Collection: Wisdom
No man was ever wise by chance.Collection: Wisdom
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.Collection: Wisdom
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.Collection: Wisdom
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.Collection: Wisdom
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.Collection: Wisdom
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.Collection: Wisdom
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.Collection: Wisdom
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.Collection: Wisdom
Leave no stone unturned.Collection: Wisdom
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.Collection: Wisdom
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.Collection: Wisdom
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.Collection: Wisdom
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.Collection: Wisdom
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.Collection: Wisdom
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.Collection: Wisdom
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.Collection: Wisdom
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.Collection: Wisdom
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.Collection: Wisdom
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.Collection: Wisdom