The power of wisdom is great.
When we can draw on the knowledge and experiences of others, we frequently do not need to wait for our own experiences to serve as our guides. We can learn more about failures and achievements by reading about their experiences.
Unseen experiences give us a feeling of what we need. Here is a selection of wise sayings that will help you live a better life and make better decisions.
Wise Sayings About Success
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." —Walt Disney
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." – Francis Bacon
"Everything is hard before it is easy." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity" – Cameron Diaz
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again."– Richard Branson
"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see." - Winston Churchill
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." – Albert Einstein
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce." Vivian Komori
"Don't find fault, find a remedy." - Henry Ford
"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." - Sheryl Sandberg
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
"Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others." – Wally Amos
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim." — John D. Rockefeller
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle
"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit" – Morgan Freeman
"Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied."― Roy T. Bennett
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
"To be successful, you must act big, think big, and talk big." – Unknown*
"Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." - Michelle Obama
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."– Abraham Lincoln
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Will Durant
"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk." — Dalai Lama
"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless, then he is in truth called wise." — Gautama Buddha
"Be so good they can't ignore you" ~ Steve Martin
"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so." – Lord Chesterfield
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." – Theodore Roosevelt
"You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger." ― Gautama Buddha
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent." - Billy Graham
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean; sometimes you have to know what things don't mean." ― Bob Dylan
"There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho
"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have."― Michael Bassey Johnson
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan
Wise Sayings To Teach You Life Lessons
"An unexamined life is not worth living."– Socrates
"A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners." - Unknown*
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." – Mary Tyler Moore
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." -Marilyn Vos Savant
"There are three constants in life…change, choice, and principles." – Stephen Covey
"Do not be wise in words. Be wise in deeds." – Jewish Proverb
"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James
"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive." - Matt Cameron
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings." - Robert Breault
"You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer." — Patrick L.O. Lumumba
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own." - Chinese Proverb
"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart." – William Hazlitt
"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." - Gautama Buddha
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." - Scott Hamilton
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom." - Laozi
"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." - Ellen DeGeneres
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain." – Erica Baican
"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose--somehow we win out." - Ronald Reagan
"Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done" - Stephen Hawking
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers; he poses the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss
"The wisest men follow their own direction."― Euripides
"The only thing we can know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom." - Leo Tolstoy
"Once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack." — Germany Kent
"There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice." – Shad Helmstetter
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will." - Vernon Howard
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"I like criticism. It makes you strong." — LeBron James
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't be afraid to fail. It's not the end of the world, and in many ways, it's the first step toward learning something better and getting better at it" –Jon Hamm
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." – Andre Gide
"When looking for wise words, the best ones often come from our elders." - Catherine Pulsifer
"The past is behind you; learn from it. The future is ahead; prepare for it. The present is here; live it." - Thomas S. Monson
"Real leadership...comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing." - Madeleine Albright
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." – Marcus Aurelius
"One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings." - Robert Breault
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." - Tennessee Williams
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard
"The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life." - Lailah Gifty Akita
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."– Harold Kushner
"When life is too easy for us, we must beware, or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness." - Ibn Taymiyyah
"If we manage ego wisely, we get the upside it delivers followed by strong returns." – Dave Marcum
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia
"Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Laozi
"True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck."― Suzy Kassem
"You can never plan the future by the past." — Edmund Burke
"Each person must live their life as a model for others." - Rosa Parks
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Wise men speak when they have something to say; fools speak because they have to say something" — Aristotle
"To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." - Henri Frederic Amiel
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein
"Life often teaches us through our wrong turns and missed possibilities." – Anne Wilson Schaef
"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty." — Matshona Dhliwayo
"Life is a question, and how we live it is our answer." – Gary Keller
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." - Aristotle
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." - Marvin Gaye
"Love all, trust a few." - William Shakespeare
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." – Oprah Winfrey
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Life is a journey, not a destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense." — E.A. Bucchianeri
"Don't search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love." – Maxime Lagacé
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." - Malcolm X
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Thomas Szasz
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." – Albert Einstein
"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." — George C. Marshall
Wise Sayings To Inspire You
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Tao Te Ching
"Dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses." - Stephen Colbert
"Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential."― Anna Gould
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Yesterday, I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi
"In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy."– Theodor Reik
"Everything is possible, even the impossible." – Mary Poppins
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." — Victor Hugo
"Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself." ― Aesop
"The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom." — Frank Herbert
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." – Steve Jobs
"There are no mistakes, only opportunities." - Tina Fey
"Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners." - Paulo Coelho
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Khalil Gibran
"You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you." - Katie Couric
"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories." ― Haruki Murakami
"The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!" ― Mehmet Murat ildan
"Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." ― Gautama Buddha
"Laughter is poison to fear."― George R.R. Martin
"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours." — C. S. Lewis
"Wake up to realities! Real life is all about real things!"― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them." - Paulo Coelho
"It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me."—Christian Bale
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." – Winston Churchill
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why ." — Mark Twain
"Live today with gusto." - Dale Carnegie
"There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
"One should speak little with others and much with oneself." - Danish Proverb
"He that respects himself is safe from others." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." — Plutarch
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"Love yourself first, and everything else falls into place." — Lucille Ball
Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today." - Dale Carnegie
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." — Aristotle
"The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen." - Russian Proverb
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."– Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi
"Be smart, not impulsive!"― Bohdi Sanders
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." — Henry Van Dyke
"Great minds think alone." - Wiz Khalifa
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire
Keep your head up. "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." — Robert Frost
"Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner." - Laozi
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington
"In simple manners, all the secret lies. Be kind and virtuous; you'll be blest and wise." – Benjamin Franklin
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." — Eleanor Roosevelt
Wise Sayings From Movies
"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want." –Heath Ledger, '10 Things I Hate About You'
"Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one." - Grandmother Willow, 'Pocahontas'
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. But if you give him a mask, he will tell you the truth." – Julian Assange, 'The Fifth Estate'
"Every man dies, but not every man really lives." –William Wallace, 'Braveheart'
"A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends." –Niki Lauda, 'Rush'
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine." – Alan Turing, 'The Imitation Game'
"We walk away from our dreams afraid we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed." –William Forrester, 'Finding Forrester'
"You have to get lost before you find yourself." - Margo Roth Spiegelman, 'Paper Towns'
"Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe." –Martin Luther King Jr., 'Selma'
"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life." - Walter Mitty, 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty'
"If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead." - Gusteau, 'Ratatouille'
"Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be improved." - Shuri, 'Black Panther'
"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" –Clarence The Angel, 'It's a Wonderful Life'
"Great men are not born great; they grow great." – Don Vito Corleone, 'The Godfather'
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - Gandalf, 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring'
"You want to get out of the hole? First, you're going to have to put down the shovel." - Rick Dicker, 'Incredibles 2'
"We are who we choose to be." - Green Goblin, 'Spider-Man'
"Dying for the right cause. It's the most human thing we can do." — Freysa, 'Blade Runner 2049'
"Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever." –Professor X, 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
"Do, or do not. There is no "try". – Yoda, 'Star Wars'
"The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up." - Timothy Mouse, Dumbo
"It's what you do right now that makes a difference." –Struecker, 'Black Hawk Down'
"You control your destiny — you don't need magic to do it. And there are no magical shortcuts to solving your problems." – Merida, 'Brave'
"Hope is not a strategy." - August Walker, 'Mission Impossible: Fallout'
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."— Don Michael Corleone, 'The Godfather: Part II'
"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." –Benjamin Button, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
"When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you." – Roy McAvoy, 'Tin Cup'
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – Ferris, 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'
"We can't retract the decisions we've made. We can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here." –Nick Rice, 'Law Abiding Citizen'
"Get busy living, or get busy dying." – Andy Dufresne, 'The Shawshank Redemption'
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - John Keating, 'Dead Poets Society'
"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." - Prince of Genovia, 'The Princess Diaries'
" If we didn't do what we loved, we wouldn't exist." – Adonis, 'Creed 2'
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine." –Alan Turing, 'The Imitation Game'
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." – Neil Armstrong, 'First Man'
"You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to." - Sean Maguire, 'Good Will Hunting'
"Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It's the moments that take your breath away." –Alex Hitchens, 'Hitch'
"When you get a different vantage point, it changes your perspective… It allows you to see things you should have seen a long time ago." - Neil Armstrong, 'First Man'
"To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it." – Jack Burden, 'All the King's Men'
"All the courage in the world cannot alter fact." — Niander Wallace, 'Blade Runner 2049'
"Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear." - Maximus, 'Gladiator'
"The truth is a matter of circumstances; it's not all things to all people all the time." – Natasha Romanoff, 'The Winter Soldier'
"Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump, 'Forrest Gump'
"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… it is our choices."- Albus Dumbledore, 'Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets'
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - Roger "Verbal" Kint, 'The Usual Suspects'
