Wisdom Quotes

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

~ Gary L. Francione

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

~ Amy Poehler

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

~ Deepak Chopra

Imagine no limitations, decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

~ Brian Tracy

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

~ Brian Tracy

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.

~ Alice Walker

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

~ Douglas Coupland

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

~ Brian Tracy

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

~ John Ruskin

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

~ Anthony Robbins

Please, touch me, I pray.

~ Jess C. Scott

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

~ Brian Tracy

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

~ Brian Tracy

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

~ Douglas Coupland

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

~ Paulo Coelho

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

~ Brian Tracy

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

~ Brian Tracy

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

~ C.s. Lewis

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

~ Brian Tracy

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

~ Xiaolu Guo

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

~ Brian Tracy

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

~ Harshit Walia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

~ Isaac Asimov

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

~ Rick Riordan

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

~ Maya Angelou

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

~ Helen Keller

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget.

~ Thomas Szasz

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

~ Marcel Proust

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

~ Walt Whitman

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

~ Socrates

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

~ Bruce Lee

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

~ Miguel Ruiz

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

~ Epicurus

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen