Wisdom Quotes - Page 9

• Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief

  Harun Yahya

  Islamic, Being Alone, Men

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Wise, Religious

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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  Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Hands, Decision

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Life, Fighting, Acceptance

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• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

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• There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Peace, Buddhist

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Happiness, Happy, Spiritual

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• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Famous Inspirational, Believe In Yourself

  "3 Inspiring Business Lessons From Billionaire Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2016.

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• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Witty

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

  Norman Cousins

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Anticipation

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, Desire

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

  Marvin Gaye

  Inspirational, Peace, Passion

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Positive, Encouraging, Confidence

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• The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

  Zhuangzi

  Wise, Men, Taoism

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