Famous Words of Wisdom
1. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”― Arthur C. Clarke
2. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — Malala Yousafzai
3. “You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Every baby is unique. Do what you think is best for your child.
5. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
6. Aim for your dreams, but don’t lose yourself along the way. Sometimes the road to greatness takes creating your own path.
7. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”― Zig Ziglar
8. “Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you.” – Deuteronomy 31:6
9. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“ – Groucho Marx
10. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” —Marie Curie
11. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.” – Naval Ravikant
13. “Love the people who love you back.”― Laura Ruby
14. “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”― Samuel Lover
15. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
16. “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
17. Graduation was the match that sparked your future. Light the night up with your potential.
18. “Lost time is never found again.” —Benjamin Franklin
19. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw
20. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” — William Arthur Ward
21. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn
22. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Marriage is two individuals moving together on a path. You can still be who you are and love someone else.
24. “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Abraham Lincoln
25. “A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.”― Leigh Bardugo
26. Remember to laugh at the small stuff. Spilled cereal can quickly be cleaned up.
27. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso
28. “Be very careful about what you think. Your thoughts run your life.” – Proverbs 4:23
29. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein
30. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” —Tony Robbins
31. Graduation is the end but also the beginning. It’s the start of a new chapter written entirely by you.
32. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
33. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
34. “No” simply means begin again at one level higher.” – Peter Diamandis
35. “Progress comes with practice, and practice comes with purpose. Know your “why.”” – Melissa Steginus
36. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”― Steve Maraboli
37. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
38. Your partner is often the one that sees you at your worst, make sure they also see you at your best too.
39. Failure is an option. Because you need to fail to grow. Each failure makes success that much closer.
40. While it’s important to support each other, it’s also crucial to surround yourself with people that support you as a couple.
41. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien
42. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
43. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
44. There isn’t any perfect parenting technique. You just have to use what works best for your family.
45. When you dream, dream together. Commitment is the key to a long-lasting relationship.
46. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
47. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
48. “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” – Melissa Etheridge
49. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” – John C. Maxwell
50. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
51. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
52. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” – 2 Corinthians 5:7
53. No matter what anyone tells you, your instincts are always right.
54. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
55. “The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”― Hamza Yusuf
56. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou
57. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser
58. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
59. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
60. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne
61. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”― Wayne W. Dyer
62. “Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.” —Roy T. Bennett
63. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
64. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
65. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
66. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”― Napoleon Hill
67. “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” – William Saroyan
68. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
69. Trust your gut. If you ever feel it’s not right, then it’s not.
70. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”― Confucius
71. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
72. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
73. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” – Confucius
74. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” – Margaret Fuller
75. “Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.” – James 4:10
76. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney
77. “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”― Jodi Picoult
78. “Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.“ – Helen Keller
79. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
80. “I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them.” – Pablo Picasso
81. “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day.” – Janis Joplin
82. Complaining will not get anything done.
83. “The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
84. “A little progress every day adds up to big results.” – Satya
85. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
86. “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
87. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” —Tricia Cunningham
88. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
89. “Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress.” – Jeff Olson
90. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
91. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” —Helen Keller
92. “No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
93. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
94. “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”- Brian Tracy
95. “It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” – Henry David Thoreau
96. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” – Rosa Parks
97. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
98. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” —Stephen King
99. “Always Do What You Are Afraid To Do” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
100. “In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”― Sophie Kinsella
101. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
102. “Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”― E.A. Bucchianeri
103. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
104. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” – Matthew 6:34
105. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Mary Engelbreit
106. “Your big opportunity may be right where you are standing right now.” —Napoleon Hill
107. “Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it” – Brian Vaszily
108. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
109. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
110. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.“ – Andrew Carnegie
111. “Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.” – Jason Lemkin
112. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
113. “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”― Horace
114. “The wisest men follow their own direction.”― Euripides
115. “Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.”― Suzy Kassem
116. “Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have.” – Hebrews 13:5
117. “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn
118. “Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle.” – Pat Riley
119. Every moment is precious, even the bad ones. And typically the horrible moments are the ones you’ll laugh at down the road.
120. “Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”― Roy T. Bennett
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