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Quotations About Wise Words

Related: Wisdom, Virtue, Truth, Advice

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939


Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
The Summing Up, 1938


Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
Albert Camus
The Fall, 1956


In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller
The Books in My Life


Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis
Imitation of Christ, 1420


Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
Dune Chronicles


The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
Approximations, 1922


Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Max Lerner
Actions and Passions, 1949


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
James Dean


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill


A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce


Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald


Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau


See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.
Pope John XXIII


The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Unknown


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero


Adapt yourself to changing circumstances.
Chinese proverb


Never write a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb