300 Motivational Wisdom Quotes
Here is a list of 300 Motivational Wisdom Quotes that will inspire and motivate you to succeed. Use these wisdom quotes to boost your motivation. These Quotes will inspire you to move forward in your life without giving up. Read & share these empowering quotes to inspire others.
300 Motivational Wisdom Quotes
1. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
2. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn
3. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan
4. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey
5. “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” C. S. Lewis
6. “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
7. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Immanuel Kant
8. “Everyday may not be a good day but there is good in every day. Unknown
9. “The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve waste time on.” Anonymous
10. “Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. Unknown
11. “Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom say another.” Edmund Burke
12. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Unknown
13. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” Matt Cameron
14. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Albert Einstein
15. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” Wayne Dyer
16. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Lou Holtz
17. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” William James
18. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Scott Hamilton
19. “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
20. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
21. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Mahatma Gandhi
22. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Oprah Winfrey
23. “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” —Dalai Lama
24. “Lost time is never found again.” —Benjamin Franklin
25. “When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.” Thomas A Kempis
26. “Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.” Anonymous
27. “People share their wisdom in the hopes of making a difference in other people’s lives.
28. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “If we have the attitude that it is going to be a great day it usually is.
30. “Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” Ron Wild
31. “The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
32. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” Oliver Wendall Holmes
33. “The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. Jean Renoir
34. “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
35. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” Voltaire
36. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
37. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” Tony Robbins
39. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost
40. “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
41. “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” Les Brown
42. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” Anonymous
43. “When you have faith, everything is possible.
44. “It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.” Manly P. Hall
45. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale
46. “Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” Zen Proverb
47. “Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. Pat Conroy, My Losing Season
48. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” Francis Bacon
49. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
50. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
51. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
53. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela
54. “Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” —Elbert Hubbard
55. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” Saint Augustine
56. “Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” —C. S. Lewis
57. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
58. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” —John D. Rockefeller
59. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain
60. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle
61. “When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” —George C. Marshall
62. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” —Robert Frost
63. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
64. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” Charles Dickens
65. “The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.” Ivan Panin
66. “You can never plan the future by the past.” —Edmund Burke
67. “Honesty is the first book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
68. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” George Bernard Shaw
69. “Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.” Anonymous
70. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius
71. “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
72. “There are three constants in life…change, choice, and principles.” Stephen Covey
73. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr.
74. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them–that only creates sorrow. Let reality be a reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
75. “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
76. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” Albert Einstein
77. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” Jimi Hendrix
78. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. Lao Tzu
79. “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Michel83 de Montaigne
80. “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. Leo Tolstoy
81. “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” Anonymous
82. “Wisdom is knowledge that is guided by understanding; we have to have the wisdom and the knowledge to understand why certain things happen in our lives and trust that God will lead us over any obstacles that comes in our way.” Anonymous
21. “It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” Henry David Thoreau
84. “He that respects himself is safe from others.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
85. “Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles”
86. “A wise owl sat on an oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard. Why aren’t we like the wise old bird?” Charles M Schulz
87. “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.” Charles Spurgeon
88. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates
89. “Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.” Anonymous
90. “If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.” Holly Near
91. “Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.” Debbie Ford
92. “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller
93. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle
94. “Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” Elbert Hubbard
95. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” Billy Graham
96. “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” Rosa Parks
97. “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
98. “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” Vivian Komori
99. “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery–there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” Rick Warren
100. “Let your actions demonstrate your wisdom.” Unknown
101. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke
102. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
103. “The door to wisdom is knowing yourself.” Anonymous
104. “Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.” Anthony Douglas Williams
105. “The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli
106. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin
107. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
108. “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu
109. “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci
110. “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Confucius
111. “There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool. Diogenes
112. “Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Hermann Hesse
113. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
114. “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. Leonard Nimoy
115. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington
116. “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
117. “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran
118. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
119. “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran
120. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” —Anonymous
121. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” —John Wooden
122. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” —Anonymous
123. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
124. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” —Anonymous
126. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
127. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
128. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” —Anonymous
129. “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” —Anonymous
130. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” —Proverb
131. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” —Anonymous
132. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” —Vaibhav Shah
133. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” —Chris Grosser
134. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” —Albert Einstein
135. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
136. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison
137 “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” —Kim Garst
139. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” —Anonymous
140. “You can do anything, but not everything. —Anonymous
141. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs
142. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” —Ray Goforth
143. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” —A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
144. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” —Thomas Jefferson
145. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” —Napoleon Hill
146. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” —Robert Collier
148. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” —Michael John Bobak
149. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” —Philippos
150. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain
151. “A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. David Elton Trueblood
152. “The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honore De Balzac
153. “He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Mark Twain
154. “Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? Martin Farquhar Tupper
155. “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers
156. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
157. “A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
158. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett
159. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
160. “Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. Thomas Moore
161. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
162. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” John C. Maxwell
163. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” Soren Kierkegaar
164. “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
165. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” John F. Kennedy
166. “There is no passion to be found playing small–in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela
167. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison
168. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” Amelia Earhart
169. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how the character is built.” Eleanor Roosevelt
16. “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.” Paulo Coelho
170. “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” Thomas Jefferson
171. “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
172. “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.” Brian Tracy
173. “Today is life–the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” Dale Carnegie
175. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley
176. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
177. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” —Henry Ford
178. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” —Winston Churchill
179. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” —Anonymous
180. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” —Anonymous
181. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” —Oscar Wilde
182. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” —Anonymous
183. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” —Bruce Feirstein
184. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” —Lolly Daskal
185. “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
186. “The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.” Ivan Panin
187. “You can never plan the future by the past.” —Edmund Burke
188. “Honesty is the first book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
189. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” George Bernard Shaw
190. “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” —Anonymous
191. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
192. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” —Albert Einstein
194. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Anonymous
195. “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” —Anonymous
196. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —Lolly Daskal
197. “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” —Anonymous
198. “Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.” Anonymous
199. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius
200. “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
201. “There are three constants in life…change, choice, and principles.” Stephen Covey
202. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr.
203. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them–that only creates sorrow. Let reality be a reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
204. “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
205. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” Albert Einstein
206. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” Jimi Hendrix
207. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. Lao Tzu
208. “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne
209. “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. Leo Tolstoy
210. “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” Anonymous
211. “Wisdom is knowledge that is guided by understanding; we have to have the wisdom and the knowledge to understand why certain things happen in our lives and trust that God will lead us over any obstacles that comes in our way.” Anonymous
212. “It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” Henry David Thoreau
213. “He that respects himself is safe from others.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
214. “Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles”
215. “A wise owl sat on an oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard. Why aren’t we like the wise old bird?” Charles M Schulz
216. “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.” Charles Spurgeon
217. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates
218. “Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.” Anonymous
219. “If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.” Holly Near
220. “Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.” Debbie Ford
221. “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller
222. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle
223. “Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” Elbert Hubbard
224. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” Billy Graham
225. “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” Rosa Parks
226. “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
227. “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” Vivian Komori
228. “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery–there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” Rick Warren
229. “Let your actions demonstrate your wisdom.” ATGW
230. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke
231. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
232. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” —Booker T. Washington
233. “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” —Theodore N. Vail
234. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville
2395. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid.” —Spencer Johnson
236. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” —Washington Irving
237. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote
238. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John R. Wooden
239. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” —Margaret Thatcher
240. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” —Vince Lombardi
241. “The door to wisdom is knowing yourself.” Anonymous
242. “Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.” Anthony Douglas Williams
243. “The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli
244. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin
245. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
246. “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu
247. “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci
248. “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Confucius
249. “There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool. Diogenes
250. “Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Hermann Hesse
251. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
252. “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. Leonard Nimoy
253. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington
354. “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
355. “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran
356. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
357. “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran
258. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” —Anatole France
259. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” —Dale Carnegie
260. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” —Jim Ryun
261. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie
262. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox
263. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” —Francis Chan
264. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” —George Lorimer
265. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee
266. “Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” —John C. Maxwell
267. “A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. David Elton Trueblood
268. “The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honore De Balzac
269. “He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Mark Twain
270. “Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? Martin Farquhar Tupper
271. “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers
272. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
273. “A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
274. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett
275. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
276. “Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. Thomas Moore
277. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” John C. Maxwell
278. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” Soren Kierkegaar
279. “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
280. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” John F. Kennedy
281. “There is no passion to be found playing small–in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela
282. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison
283. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” Amelia Earhart
284. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” Eleanor Roosevelt
285. “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.” Paulo Coelho
286. “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” Thomas Jefferson
287. “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
288. “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.” Brian Tracy
289. “Today is life–the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” Dale Carnegie
290. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” —Pablo Picasso
291. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar
292. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” —Earl Nightingale
293. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” —Vidal Sassoon
294. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ” —Les Brown
295. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” —Bill Gates
296. “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” —Henry Kravis
297. “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
298. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” —Tony Robbins
299. “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” —Audre Lorde
300. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain