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Wisdom Quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything.

—David Allen

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

—Unknown Author

4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

—Wayne Gretzky

5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

—Ambrose Redmoon

6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Gandhi

7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

—Lin-Chi

8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne

9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

—Abraham Maslow

10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle

11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

—Baltasar Gracian

12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

—Basho

13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

—Lao-Tze

14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

—John Ruskin

16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

—Marcel Proust

17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching

—Unknown Author

18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

—Virgil Garnett Thomson

19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

—Will Rogers

20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

—Zig Ziglar

Funny Quotes

21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

—John Wilmot

22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

—Oscar Levant

23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

—Oscar Wilde

24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

—New York City detective

25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

—Norm Crosby

26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

—Kurt Vonnegut

27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

—Carl Sagan

28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

—Jean Rostand

29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

—Lily Tomlin

30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

—Richard Lewis

31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

—Robert Wilensky

32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

—Scott Adams

33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

—Anon

34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.

—Clarence Darrow

35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

—Cyril Connolly

37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

—Dick Cavett

38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

—H. L. Mencken

39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

—Victor Hugo

40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

—Woody Allen

Otherwise Intelligent Quotes

41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

—Albert Einstein

42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

—André Gide

43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle

44. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

—Aryeh Frimer

45. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

—Bill Vaughan

46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

—Blaise Pascal

47. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

—Cale Yarborough

48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

—Charles F. Kettering

49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

—Christopher Hampton

50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

—Cyril Connolly

51. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

—Dame Edna Everage

52. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

—Edith Sitwell

53. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

—Ellen Goodman

54. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

—Ellen Parr

55. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

—Erica Jong

56. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

—Gordon R. Dickson

57. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

—Lily Tomlin

58. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.

—Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)

59. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

—Oscar Wilde

60. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

—Thomas Szasz

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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats

99
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

98
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

97
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

96
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

95
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

94
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli

93
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James

91
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

90
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen

89
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

88
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi

Picture Quote - The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke

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The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Picture Quote - Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers

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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
Picture Quote - Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake

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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake
Picture Quote - Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran

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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
Picture Quote - No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Picture Quote - Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl A. Menninger

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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
Picture Quote - Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Satchel Paige

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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel Paige
Picture Quote - It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. George Washington

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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington


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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

78
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

77
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony

76
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
John Galsworthy

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

69
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu

Picture Quote - The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Picture Quote - A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. Jesus Christ

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A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Jesus Christ
Picture Quote - There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Picture Quote - Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Picture Quote - God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire
Picture Quote - Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Picture Quote - Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Picture Quote - Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien

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Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank

58
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

56
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

54
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

52
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

51
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

50
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

49
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead

48
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

47
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

Picture Quote - When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor E. Frankl

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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
Picture Quote - Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert H. Schuller

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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
Picture Quote - What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
Picture Quote - Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
Picture Quote - We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche

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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Picture Quote - All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Picture Quote - We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Picture Quote - It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

37
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides

35
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu

34
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

31
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

30
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Picture Quote - For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Picture Quote - If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
Picture Quote - As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Picture Quote - Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Picture Quote - Believe you can and you're halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Picture Quote - Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Picture Quote - The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Picture Quote - The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. Seuss

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

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Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

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Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

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Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn

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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller