Wisdom


Motivational Speakers and Wisdom19 Jun 2009 03:49 am

These here are some quotes on trusts..

“Our distrust is very expensive.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”
~ Mother Teresa

“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe… Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.”
~ H. L. Mencken

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
~Frank Crane

“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ”
~Cardinal De Retz

“Those who trust us educate us.”
~T.S. Eliot

“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
~ Barbra Streisand

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
~Samuel Johnson

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
~George MacDonald

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
~Alfred Adler

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
~ Golda Meir

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
~Aesop

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
~Anton Chekhov

Ah.. This one is very true and funny.. funny times
“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
~Helen Rowland

“Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.”
~Oliver Cromwell

“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
~Horace

“When mistrust comes in, love goes out.”
~Irish Sayings

Virtues and Wisdom18 Jun 2009 03:04 am

Here are some quotes and sayings on jealousy starting with my favorite:
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ”
~Charley Reese

“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
~ Francoise Sagan

“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
~ Baltasar Gracian

“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
~ John Dryden

“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
~Lawrence Durrell

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.”
~ François de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.
~Karl Kraus

“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.”
~ Spanish Proverb

“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
~Elizabeth Bowen

This is a very true jealousy quote “As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.”
~Antisthenes

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
~ George Washington

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
~H. G. Wells

“Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ”
~Honore de Balzac

“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”
~William Shenstone

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
~Bob Marley

Inspirational Quotes and Motivational Speakers and Wisdom11 Jun 2009 10:05 am

Some Inspirational Quotes on struggle.
“The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.”
~ Unknown Author

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
~ Heraclitus

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
~ Hellen Keller

Don’t try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.
~ Daniel Quinn, Adapted from the proverb on not feeding a fish but teaching how to catch the fish.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
~ Henry David Thoreau

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
~Pierre de Coubertin

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
~Stephen Covey

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~Leon Trotsky

A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle. A defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
~ Sun Tzu,

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.
~Shelby Steele

If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounter bees.
~ Thomas Szasz
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
~Golda Meir

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
~Ossie Davis

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
~ Nietzsche

Misfortunes one can endure. But to suffer for one’s own faults — ah! — there is the sting of life
~Oscar Wilde

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
~ Struggle quote by Arthur C. Clarke

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
~Franz Kafka
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
~ J. Willard Marriott

Inspirational Quotes and Wisdom28 May 2009 06:01 pm

Some inspirational quotes on worth, sayings on self worth and value and some quotes with the word worth.. Or the worth of Men!!
Also see these inspirational quotes on value.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein

We are all something, but none of us are everything.
~Blaise Pascal

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~Goethe

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~Edgar Watson Howe

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

The game is not worth the candle.
~ French proverb

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
~James Garfield

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
~Michael Korda

If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of others
~ Dalai Lama

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~Friedrich Engels

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy
~ Wayne Dyer

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
~Cicero

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem
~ H. Burke Peterson

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
~Benjamin Franklin

An unexamined life is not worth living.
~Socrates

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
~William Lyon Phelps

Funny Quotes and Motivational Quotes and Wisdom27 May 2009 06:10 am

Some Inspirational quotes by women and some quotes on women.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.
~ Farrah Fawcett

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
~Vita Sackville-West

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Women prefer emotions to reasoning
~ Marie Henri Beyle

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
~ Chinese Proverbs

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
~Sally Berger

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
~Oscar Wilde

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~Martha Washington

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
~Mae West

I hate women because they always know where things are.
~Voltaire

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead

I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.
~Stanley Baldwin

Inspirational Quotes and Motivational Quotes and Wisdom15 Apr 2009 06:25 pm

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.

Inspirational Quotes and Wisdom02 May 2008 03:18 am

Some inspirational wise quotes and sayings.

“The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?”
~Oprah Winfrey

“What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.”
~The Buddha

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
~Chinese Proverb

“You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.”
~Chinese Proverb

“Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.”
~Albert Camus

” Do thy work in the peace of Yoga and, free from selfish desires, be not moved in success or in failure. Yoga is an evenness of mind, a peace that is ever the same.”
~Bhagavad Gita

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

“I’m very proud that I’m smart enough to get to the point.”
~Harry Truman

“While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself.”
~Doug Horton

” No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less”
~Edgar Watson Howe

“All philosophy in two words, – sustain and abstain.”
~Epictetus

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.”~
Leonardo Da Vinci

“Whatever you are be a good one.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”
~Woody Allen

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” ~William James

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom19 May 2007 02:38 am

“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.”~ Philip James Bailey

“The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.”~ Abraham Maslow

“Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”~ Emily Dickinson

“Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.”~ William Newton Clark

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn’d!” ~Homer

“Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.”~Sir William Osler

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”~ C.S. Lewis

“O welcome pure-ey’d Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!” ~John Milton

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

General Topics and Wisdom30 Jan 2007 05:29 am

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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

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