Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John F. Kennedy
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. Coco Chanel
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. George R.R. Martin
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Stephen King
You should never take more than you give. Elton John
Take a long pause …breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you. Ashton Kutcher
It’s nice to be important, but it’s also important to be nice. Never forget that. Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment. Al Pacino
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. George Clooney
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it.
Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both.
They balance each other out. Barbra Streisand
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but
you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.
Céline Dion
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man. Malcolm X
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own. Nikola Tesla
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do
not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Nicolaus
Copernicus
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power. Bill Clinton
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant
Hard work betrays none. Hachiman Hikigaya
Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
Go and get your things. Dreams mean work. Paulo Coelho
Work incessantly, but be not attached to it. Swami Vivekananda
God sells us all things at the price of labor. Leonardo da Vinci
Work without love is slavery. Mother Teresa
Work harder than you think you did yesterday. Alex Elle
Hard work does pay off. Michael Phelps
Work to me is a sacred thing. Margaret Bourke-White
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Robert Burns
Nothing can beat hard work. Conor McGregor
Light tomorrow with today. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I sweat in tears to get what I want. Lailah Akita
Work hard in silence; let success make the noise. Frank Ocean
What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy. Unknown
Be thankful for what you have. Work hard for what you don’t have. Unknown
It hurts now but one day it will be your warm up. Unknown
Look in the mirror – that’s your competition. Unknown
Sore today, strong tomorrow. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. Iain Duncan Smith
If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. Ben Hogan
Start with a cry, end with a smile. Michael Bassey Johnson
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde
The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie
Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. Kevin Durant
The obstacle is the way. Ryan Holiday
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work. Richard Bach
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan
Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with
and what you work on are more important than how hard you work. Naval
Ravikant
What you do, and how you do it, is so much more important than how hard you do it. Naval Ravikant
So often people are working hard at the wrong thing.
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
Caterina Fake
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
There’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. Joyce Chapman
Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. Mary E. Pearson
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. Victor Hugo
Part 1. He does nothing with haste and drudgery, but as
if he loved it. He makes the most of his labor, and takes infinite
satisfaction in every part of it. Henry David Thoreau
Part 2. He is not looking forward to the sale of his
crops or any pecuniary profit, but he is paid by the constant
satisfaction which his labor yields him. Henry David Thoreau
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. David Bly
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing
in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass
Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want. Prabakaran Thirumalai
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep
to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t
try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be
completely present. Lao Tzu
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control. Booker T. Washington
Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen. Unknown
Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give, the last one you get. Unknown
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich
Part 1. So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Marcus Aurelius
Part 2. Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and
spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world
in order, as best they can? Marcus Aurelius
Part 3. And you’re not willing to do your job as a human
being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands? Marcus
Aurelius
If you accomplish something good with hard work, the
labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful
in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame
endures. Gaius Musonius Rufus
I woult rather die of passion than of boredom. Émile Zola
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
