Quotes About Wisdom

1. You can do anything, but not everything.

—David Allen

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

—Unknown Author

4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

—Wayne Gretzky

5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

—Ambrose Redmoon

6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Gandhi

7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

—Lin-Chi

8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne

9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

—Abraham Maslow

10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle

11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

—Baltasar Gracian

12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

—Basho

13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

—Lao-Tze

14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. 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

16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

—Marcel Proust

17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching

—Unknown Author

18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

—Virgil Garnett Thomson

19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

—Will Rogers

20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

—Zig Ziglar

About Me Quotes

I want a person to come into my life by accident, but stays on purpose. 

 

I don’t hate my haters, but I won’t ever surround myself with such negativity. I’m better than that.

 

Dear Music, I will never be able to thank you enough for always being there for me.

 

I’m a simple person who hides a thousand feelings behind the happiest smile.

 

I’m not the girl that got away, but the one you failed to keep.

 

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now that im older, I want to be a kid again.

 

I’m mistaken for a flirt when I’m friendly, a bitch when I’m blunt, shy when I’m quiet. You just can’t please everyone.

 

The biggest mistake I have made in my life is letting people stay in my life far longer than they deserve.

 

When I say that I won’t tell anybody, my bestfriend doesn’t count.

 

Don’t judge the path I choose to take if you haven’t walked the journey I had to make.

 

I don’t regret my past. I just regret the time I’ve wasted with the wrong people.

 

Bottled up inside are the words I never said, the feelings that I hide, the lines you’ve never read.

 

Got a problem with me? Solve it. Think I’m trippin? Tie my shoes. Can’t stand me? Sit back down. Can’t face me? Turn around.

 

Sometimes, I push you away because I need you to pull me closer.

 

Like an apple on a tree. Hiding out behind the leaves. I was difficult to reach, but you picked me.

 

I’m not someone’s spare time. I’m their undivided attention.

 

I’m not shy, I’m holding back my awesomeness, so I don’t intimidate you.

 

I’m an artist, I paint on a smile. I’m an actress, I hold back the tears. I’m a doctor, trying to fix a broken heart.

 

I don’t follow the rules, I don’t follow the crowd, I don’t follow instructions, I don’t follow advice. I like to play fair I just don’t always play nice.

 

It’s not that I don’t believe in love, I am just terrified that it doesn’t believe in me.

 

I love those random memories that make me smile no matter what’s going on in my life right now.

 

Just because I don’t talk to you, or text you first, doesn’t mean I don’t miss you. I’m just waiting for you to miss me.

 

I’d rather be known for being a bitch while being real, then known for being the sweetest girl while being fake.

 

The more I know the less I understand. All the things I thought I figured out I have to learn again.

 

Don’t judge me for my choices when you don’t understand my reasons.

 

I’ll never be perfect, you just have to accept the fact that I am who I am.

 

Don’t put me on a pedestal, for I am sure to fall. Just love me as I am, flaws and all.

 

I see myself as a crayon, I may not be your favorite color, but I know someday, you will need me to complete your picture.

 

I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.

 

I’m not sure how to impress you so I hope being myself is good enough.

 

Boys think of girls like books; if the cover doesn’t catch their eyes, they won’t even bother to read what’s inside.

 

I don’t exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

 

I’m not random, you just can’t think as fast as me.

 

If i liked your status on facebook that means u have entertained me.

 

I’m the oposite of a slut because I’ll never give a fuck.

 

That awkward moment when you’re scuba diving and see Adele rolling in the deep.

 

I had enough of “not good enough” so I decided to do better.

 

Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset.

 

If you don’t like my words, don’t listen. If you don’t like my appearance, don’t look. If you don’t like my actions, turn your head; It’s as simple as that.

 

Men and Women Quotes

Women are sensitive, they overthink every little thing and they care way more than they should, but that’s what makes their love so strong.

 

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea

 

Note To Females: Some men just don’t understand how much women are worth. They only see what they had when she’s gone.

 

A girl just wants to find that guy who will prove to her that they’re not all the same.

 

The best kind of guy is the one that can make his girl smile, even when she’s mad at him.

 

A boy can make you believe that he loves you when he doesn’t. A girl can make you believe that she doesn’t love you when she really does.

 

From a girl’s point of view, the guy always chooses the slut. From a guy’s point of view, the girl always chooses the jerk.

 

Real girls stay. Hoes come and go. Little boys play around. Real men settle down.

 

A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games.

 

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.

 

Women are like remote controls. It gives a man pleasure, he’d be lost without it, and while he doesn’t always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying!

 

Women are like apples. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don’t want to reach for them as they’re afraid of falling and getting hurt.

 

Men are like wine. It begins as grapes, and it’s up to women to stomp the crap out of it until it turns into something acceptable to have dinner with.

 

It’s amazing how guys take care of their Jordan’s, but can’t take care of a woman.

 

When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.

 

Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

 

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

 

If diamonds are a girl’s best friend and a dog is man’s best friend, who really is the dumber sex?

 

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

 

Girlfriends are like credit cards, you can’t get one unless you already have one.

Heart Break Quotes

She comes off as strong, but maybe she fell asleep crying. She acts like nothing is wrong, but maybe she’s just really good at lying.

 

The worst way to miss somebody is when they are right beside you and yet you know you can never have them.

 

Staying with someone who doesn’t appreciate you is like standing in quick sand, slowly sinking in sadness.

 

Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the biggest fool of all? Is it the girl who cant stop crying, or maybe the girl who kept on trying?

 

Don’t break a girl’s heart because she’ll probably write a bestselling album about you.

 

One of the saddest thing that can happen is when one falls in love while the other wants nothing more than friendship.

 

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

 

Love is river crossing and every broken heart is a stepping stone to the other side, true love. Trust that there is someone to catch you when you fall; because there is, you just haven’t found them yet.

 

Once you have really hurt someone, it will always be in the back of their mind even if they still have a smile on their face.

 

If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane, I would walk right up to heaven and bring you back again.

 

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

 

Some people come into your life and you just know you will never be able to replace them if they left.

 

Everytime you lie, it brings me a little closer to goodbye.

 

It’s the things that you least expect that hit you the hardest.

 

When I don’t see you, I’m perfectly fine and I can move on. But the second I see your face, I’m back to wishing you were mine again.

 

Days pass and feelings fade, I’m wondering if you regret that decision you made.

 

“I still wanna be friends” is the same as saying “pretend none of this ever happened”.

 

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

 

Just because she’s smiling all day, doesn’t mean she’s not crying herself to sleep every night.

 

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing things will never be the same.

Quotations about Time

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.  ~William Faulkner


Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.  ~John Archibald Wheeler


As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.  ~Henry David Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854


Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror.  It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.  ~Martin Amis, Money


The clock talked loud.  I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.  ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle


Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.  ~Dion Boucicault


In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.  ~Osbert Sitwell


For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.  ~Doug Larson


But what minutes!  Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


Time goes, you say?  Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson


Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.  ~Charles Dickens


Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.  ~Author Unknown


Time is the fire in which we burn.  ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937  (Thanks, George)


Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
~William Shakespeare


You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.  ~James Matthew Barrie


A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.  ~John B. Priestly


It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;
I'll wind thee up no more.
~Ben Jonson


The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000


Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.  ~The Talmud


Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.  ~Doménico Cieri Estrada


Time is making fools of us again.  ~J.K. Rowling


El tiempo da buen consejo.  ~Proverb


There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men:  time.  ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815


Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.  ~Faith Baldwin


When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."  ~Author Unknown



Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time?  I want an interregnum.  The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?  ~John Dos Passos, 1917


How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.  ~Zall's Second Law


The years like great black oxen tread the world
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
~William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen


Time! the corrector when our judgments err.  ~Lord Byron


The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not.... ~Thomas Carlyle


Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.  ~Carl Sandburg


Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.  ~Robert Brault,


Time heals what reason cannot.  ~Seneca


I am tired of the imposed rhythms of men,
Tethered time, restrained and trained
To a monotonous beat
Digital time blinking exactness
Unliving.
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Conjecture," Beyond Me, www.originals.net


If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.  ~Elbert Hubbard


Darn the wheel of the world!  Why must it continually turn over?  Where is the reverse gear?  ~Jack London


Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.  ~Friedrich Schiller


The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.  ~C.S. Lewis


Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?  ~Paracelsus


What then is time?  If no one asks me, I know what it is.  If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.  ~Saint Augustine


Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow.  ~Denise Tanner


Each moment has its sickle, emulous
Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep
Strikes empires from the root.
~Edward Young


The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.  ~Martin H. Fischer


Time is the wisest counsellor of all.  ~Pericles


A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.  ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried


There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time.  I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in."  ~Dave Beard (@Raqhun)


Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.  ~Charles Caleb Colton


Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.  ~Mike Dolan,


Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.  ~Willaim Penn


Time is the longest distance between two places.  ~Tennessee Williams


Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.  ~Robert Brault,


Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Man goes nowhere.  Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.
~Edward Fitzgerald


For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth.  Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.  ~Robert Brault,


Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it:  he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.  ~Charles Caleb Colton


Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.  ~Henry David Thoreau


The Present is a Point just passed.  ~David Russell


Methinks I see the wanton hours flee,
And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
~George Villiers


Time is an equal opportunity employer.  Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.  Rich people can't buy more hours.  Scientists can't invent new minutes.  And you can't save time to spend it on another day.  Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving.  No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.  ~Denis Waitely


Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.  ~Charles Caleb Colton


One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.  ~Sister Mary Paul


Day, n.  A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.  ~Ambrose Bierce


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.  ~Louis Hector Berlioz


Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.  ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata" (Thanks Tom)