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10 Greatest Wisdom Quotes

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.” – Christopher Hampton

“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.” – Samuel Smiles

“My father used to say, you would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.” – Dr. Phil McGraw

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.” – Anonymous

“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

Miracles Quotes

– “A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” – William Hazlitt

– “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” – Patricia Neal

– “After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

– “Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – and miracles began to happen.” – David Wilkerson

– “America – It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.” – Tom Wolfe

– “And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.” – Elias Hicks

– “Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.” – David Ben-Gurion

– “As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.” – George Whitefield

– “Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.” – Henry Miller

– “Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.” – Lionel Blue

– “Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.” – Laurence J. Peter

– “Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.” – Edwin Louis Cole

– “Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

– “For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

– “God continues to work miracles in my life.” – Willie Aames

– “Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you’ve never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there’s no time.” – Patricia Richardson

– “Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” – Samuel Smiles

– “How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.” – David Wilkerson

– “I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.” – Benny Hinn

– “I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.” – Corazon Aquino

– “The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.” – G.K. Chesterton