WORDS of WISDOM

 WORDS OF WISDOM

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”  (Aristotle)

“The wise person questions himself, the fool others.” (Henri Arnold)

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The choice is how.”   (Henry Ward Beecher)

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” (Alexander Graham Bell)

“We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right.” (Gary Ryan Blair)

“Meditation brings wisdom: lack of meditation leads to ignorance. Know well what leads your forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” (Buddha)

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” (Buddha)

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” (Buddha)

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” (Samuel Butler)

“It is not truth that makes man great,

But man that makes truth great.” (Confucius)

“Going too far is as bad as not going far enough.” (Confucius)

“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.” (Joseph Conrad)

“Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human being, heavy laugher must be close to the top.”  (Norman Cousins)

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” (Stephen R. Covey)

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting--in the trying, not the triumph.” (Wynn Davis)

“The past is not dead; it is the sum of the factors operating in the present. The present is the past rolled up into a moment for action; the past is the present unraveled in history for our understanding.” (Will Durant)

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” (Albert Einstein).

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” (Albert Einstein)

“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” (Albert Einstein)

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough “ (Albert Einstein)

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” (Albert Einstein)

“It is still the best to concern yourself with eternal, for from them alone flows the spirit that can restore peace and serenity to the world of humans.” (Albert Einstein)

“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” (Albert Einstein)

“It is never too late to be what you might have been” (George Eliot)

“To the philosopher, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” (Henry Ford)

“Those things that hurt, instruct.”  (Benjamin Franklin)

“You can talk about God, and you think about God, but that does not bring God into your presence.” (Joel Goldsmith)

“An open mind is the beginning of self-discovery and growth. We can't learn anything new until we can admit that we don't already know everything.”  (Erwin G. Hall)

“Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.”  (Tim Hansel)

“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.” (Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel)

“No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are-it is never too late to be who you are meant to be.” (Esther & Jerry Hicks)

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” (Napoleon Hill)

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” (Napoleon Hill)

“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.” (Napoleon Hill)

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.” (Hippocrates)

“The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do  this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills . . .” (Ernest Holmes)

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” (Aldous Huxley)

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” (Erica Jong)

“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programs of life’s morning.” (C. G. Jung)

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that al the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.”   (J. Martin Kohe)

“No action, no regret.” (Lao Tzu)