Wisdom Quotes - Page 7

• Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Life And Love, Acceptance, Self

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• I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Power

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.254, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you chase two rabbits,
  you catch none.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Editors, Two

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• It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Life, Real

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.97, Counterpoint Press

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• Everything is hard before it is easy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

  Jane Wells

  Islamic, Littles, Compromise

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  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 28, 2012

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Humility, Men

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Adversity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

  Cullen Hightower

  Running, Personal Opinions, Belief

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• The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

  Antisthenes

  Life, Truth, Knowledge

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• By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

  Bayard Taylor

  Riches, Wealth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.129

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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  I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

  Alexander the Great

  Inspirational, Leadership, Peace

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  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhist

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• It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

  Arthur H. Vandenberg

  Change, Opportunity, Important

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• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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