Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

Here are some wisdom quotes that many people have found useful, some over hundreds of years. These wise words have always inspired people and shown them the right direction when they were lost or confused.
Enjoy these wisdom quotes and get wiser.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
~Andre Gide
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~Imannuel Kant

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
~William Saroyan

Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
~ Unknown.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
~ Khalil Gibran.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
~Felix Frankfurter

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
~James Huneker

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
~ Lev L. Spiro.

The grass is always greener on the other side.
~ Unknown.

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

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.
~Jack Smith

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship
~ Epicurus

People do not care how much you know, till they know how much you care!
~ Brett Watson.

Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That “still small voice” is yearning to be heard.
~Susan Jeffers

You tend to become like the people and ideas you hang around with.
~ Victory Crayne.

Here are some perseverance quotes that will inspire us to go that last mile, till we have tried that last key because someone once said,

“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints are sinners who kept on going.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
~ John D. Rockefeller

One may go a long way after one is tired.
~French Proverb

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
~William James

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
~Christopher Morley

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance
~ Samuel Johnson

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
~ Albert Einstein

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
~Douglas MacArthur

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
~ Plutarch

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
~Napoleon Hill

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
~Stephen Kaggwa

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
~ William Blake

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
~Walter Elliot

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
~ Woodrow T. Wilson

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
~ Newt Gingrich

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
~Robert Frost

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
~Dale Carnegie

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
~Seneca quotes

Some of my favorite quotes by John Keats.

“I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart’s affections and the Truth of the Imagination.”

“Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”

“Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.”

” Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”

“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.”

“Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.”

“Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.”

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.”

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”