111 Quotations Found

We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t.

Author: Frank A. Clark | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Author: Hermann Hesse | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Author: David Starr Jordan | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Insight, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Author: William Shakespeare | Subjects: Concepts, Fear, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Wisdom

Ultimately, there is egoism in the delusion that the gods would trouble themselves to punish any one of us. Equally absurd is the belief that our powers are so vast they are the cause of whatever befalls us — or can enable us to understand it. In business, as in life, one of the bitterest lessons is that hard work and good intentions aren’t always … [ Read more ]

Author: Daniel Akst | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Concepts, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure, Wisdom

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Author: Richard Bach | Subjects: Advice, Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

Every now and then say, “What the fuck.” “What the fuck” gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

Author: Curtis Armstrong | Subjects: Attitude, Concepts, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.

Author: Jack London | Subjects: Concepts, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

If we trust only when trust is warranted, love only when love is returned, and learn only when learning is valuable, then we abandon an essential feature of our humanity.

Author: James G. March | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Learning, Love, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Trust, Wisdom

Man is perishable. That may be; but let us perish resisting, and, if nothingness is what awaits us, let us not act in such a way that it would be a just fate.

Author: Etienne Pivert de Senancour | Subjects: Life & Society, Wisdom

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Author: E.E. Cummings | Subject: Wisdom

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Author: Epictetus | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | Source: from The Serenity Prayer | Subjects: Religion, Wisdom

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Wisdom

He, who by understanding, becomes converted to the gospel of service […] will serve kindness so that brutality will perish. […] And he who is strong, will serve the weak that they may become strong. He will devote his strength, not to the debasement and defilement of his weaker fellows, but to the making of opportunity for them to make themselves into men rather than … [ Read more ]

Author: Jack London | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Philanthropy, Wisdom

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.

Author: Rod Lurie | Source: The movie The Contender (2000) | Subjects: Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement, Principles, Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

God grant me the company of those who seek the truth and God deliver me from those who have found it.

Author: Isaac Newton | Subjects: Thought | Inquiry, Wisdom

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Author: Lao Tzu | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Thinking aloud is a habit responsible for much of mankind’s misery.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Thought | Inquiry, Wisdom