Thursday, March 3, 2011

Words of #Wisdom for #Thursday

Wisdom

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
~Ann Landers

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
~Franklin P. Jones

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~Thomas Carruthers

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
~Eric Hoffer

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~Peter Marshall

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
~Henry Ford

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
~Abraham Lincoln

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ~George Eliot

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
~Slovenian Proverb

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
~Ellen Glasgow

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
~Aristotle

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~Winston Churchill

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
~Maurice Baring

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
~Bill Maher

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~Leo Tolstoy

Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.
~Proverb

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
~Albert Einstein on curiosity

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ~Author Unknown

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~Words of wisdom by Confucius

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
~Otto von Bismarck

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
~Benjamin Whichcote

Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
~Wilson Mizner

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
~Henry Ford

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
~Jim Rohn

 

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