wisdom quotes

“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.”

“It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”

— Edward Estlin Cummings

“Life is just a journey.”

— Princess Diana

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

“Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.”

— Stephen Covey

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

— Joseph Campbell

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.”

— Cate Blanchett

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”

— Philip Sidney

“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

— Ansel Adams

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

“Man is a universe within himself.”

“Truth is subject to too much analysis.”

— Frank Herbert

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.”

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

— Edmund Burke

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