wisdom quotes

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”

— George Eliot

“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”

“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

— William Clement Stone

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles Swindoll

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Genius is sorrow's child.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

— William Shakespeare

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

— Edward Estlin Cummings

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”

“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

— Winston Churchill

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

— Edmund Burke

“A true man hates no one.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Edmund Burke

“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. ”

— William Shakespeare

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

“Death is a fearful thing.”

— William Shakespeare

“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

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