111 Quotations Found

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Author: Horace Walpole | Subjects: Life & Society, Wisdom

You’re not ready to live your life until you know what you want written on your tombstone.

Author: Charlie Jones | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Meaning, Wisdom

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, … [ Read more ]

Author: Leo Tolstoy | Subjects: Happiness, Thought Starters, Wisdom

But I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt | Subjects: Life & Society, Wisdom

Fear, laziness and anger. These are the downfall of human beings.

Author: Unknown | Source: Sanskrit Saying | Subjects: Fear, Wisdom

Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.

Author: Lord Halifax | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Perspective, Wisdom

Gratitude for blessings is the most exalted of all virtues. The measure of one’s existence is enhanced in proportion to the strength of his spirit of gratitude.

Author: Konosuke Matsushita | Subjects: Gratitude, Wisdom

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

NOTE: the original source is unclear. I have seen it attributed to Matthew Bennett and Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Author: Unknown | Subject: Wisdom

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Author: Reba McEntire | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure, Wisdom

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Author: Gandhi | Subjects: Happiness, Wisdom

Some of the limitations which have been accepted as natural are in reality only conventional, and so can be removed.

Author: Samuel McChord Crothers | Subject: Wisdom

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Author: Henry David Thoreau | Subjects: Happiness, Wisdom

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru | Subjects: Life & Society, Wisdom

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to them their own.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Wisdom

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Wisdom

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Author: François de La Rochefoucauld | Subjects: Fear, Wisdom

To comprehend all is to forgive all.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Wisdom

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.

Author: Andre Gide | Subjects: Fear, Travel, Wisdom

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Pain & Suffering, Wisdom