By J. A. Young
Wisdom in the form of inspiring quotations comes to us from past centuries of great thinkers. To benefit from this inspiration, listen carefully and judge their measure for yourself. The following quotes range across many subjects - all relevant to modern life and all inspiring in some way, too!"Be happy. It's one way of being wise." Colette
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman
"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life." Woodrow Wilson
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible." Miriam Schiff
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." Benjamin Franklin
"Time is eternity begun." James Montgomery
"One today is worth two tomorrows." Benjamin Franklin
"The world belongs to the energetic." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart." Mencius
"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise." Nancy Thayer
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
"I always entertain great hopes." Robert Frost
"No one from the beginning of time has had security." Eleanor Roosevelt
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." Albert Einstein
"Everyone most row with the oars he has." English Proverb
"Nothing happens unless first a dream." Carl Sandburg
"To change and to improve are two different things." German Proverb
"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes along." Samuel Butler
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." Agnes de Mille
"Everyone needs help from everyone." Bertolt Brecht
"Exuberance is beauty." William Blake
"What counts most is not to live, but to live aright." Socrates
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." George Eliot
"Skill to do comes of doing." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice." Vauvenargues
"The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love." George E. Woodberry
"He gives twice who gives promptly." Publilius Syrus
"Wisely and slowly. They stumble that run fast." Shakespeare
"Kindness gives birth to kindness." Sophocles
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." Kahlil Gibran
"My future is one I must make myself." Louis L'Amour
"I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it." Sir Laurence Olivier
"To be simple is the best thing in the world." G.K. Chesterton
"Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life." Sir Philip Sidney
"The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others." Madame de Maintenon
"Two friends - two bodies with one soul inspired." Homer
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