Quotes on Wise Words

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.