The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean de la Bruyere
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
Mattie Stepanek
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
Mel Gibson
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Muhammad Iqbal