Wisdom Quotes

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

~ Brian Tracy

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

~ Frank Herbert

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

~ Bohdi Sanders

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

~ Gary L. Francione

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

~ Andrew Clements

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

~ Brian Tracy

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.

~ C. Joybell C.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

~ Eric Idle

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

~ Deepak Chopra

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

~ Leo Babauta

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

~ Brian Tracy

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

~ Brian Tracy

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

~ Brian Tracy

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

~ Brian Tracy

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

~ Al-Hasan Al-Basri

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

~ Ansel Adams

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

~ Leo Babauta

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

~ J.k. Rowling

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

~ Bill Watterson

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

~ Anna Wintour

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

~ Nora Roberts

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

~ Amit Ray

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

~ Rick Riordan

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

~ Anton Chekhov

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

~ Brian Tracy

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

~ Brian Tracy

No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.

~ Rick Riordan

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

~ Evanescence

That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

~ Judy Blume

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

~ Anthony Robbins

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.

~ C. Joybell C.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

~ Oliver Sacks

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination, it is a continuous journey that never ends.

~ Brian Tracy

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice

~ Gary L. Francione

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

~ Robin S. Sharma

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

~ Carson Mccullers