Famous Quotes

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

~ Brian Tracy

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

~ John Stuart Mill

Develop the winning edge, small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

~ Brian Tracy

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

~ Nelson Algren

Brave? Or stupid?Roger shrugged. I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

~ Gerald Morris

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

~ Denis Healey

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

~ William Blake

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

~ Christopher Moore

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

~ Charles Kingsley

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

~ Thomas Paine

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

~ Christopher Paolini

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

~ Victor Hugo

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

~ Ana Monnar

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

~ Helen Rowland

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.

~ Madame De Sablé

They are called, SELF-worth and SELF-esteem for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

~ Jaeda Dewalt

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.

~ Suzy Kassem

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!

~ K.m. Johnson

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

~ Dannye Williamsen

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

~ Mary Stewart

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.

~ Rick Riordan

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

~ A.a. Milne

I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You’re alive. Live.

~ Mitch Lucker

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

~ Wallace Stegner

...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

~ Charles Yu

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

~ C. Joybell C.

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage

~ Adam Gidwitz

The more you know, the less you need.

~ Yvon Chouinard

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.

~ Amit Ray

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

~ Andrew Davidson

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen