Wisdom Quotes

“Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.”

— Unknown

“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.”

— Sophocles

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”

— Napoleon Hill

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”

— Abigail Van Buren

“I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.”

— Yolanda Hadid

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

— Unknown

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

— Arthur Ashe

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

— Jacob Braude

“If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”

— Anne Lindbergh

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

— Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

— Nicolas Chamfort

“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about.”

— Jet Black

“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”

— Laozi

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

— George Orwell

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

— Rabbi Hillel

“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”

— Woody Allen

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

— Carl Jung