“The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – Unknown
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown
“We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.” – Unknown
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler
“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for…There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.” -George MacDonald
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King
- “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” – Plutarch
- “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James
- “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol
- “Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach
- “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” – William Penn
- “The middle course is the best.” – Cleobulus
- “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley
- “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb
- “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca
- “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” – John Milton
- “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” – Menander
- “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt
- “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson
- “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great
- “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
- “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase
- “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer
- “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
- “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius