Little nuggets of wisdom

Little nuggets of wisdom or some quotable quotes to live your life by. Brace yourself; there's a lot of them...!!

ᴿᴹ What you think of you is much more important than what others think of you.

ᴿᴹ Don't start vast projects with half-vast ideas.

ᴿᴹ Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

ᴿᴹ Everything ends well for the one who has patience

ᴿᴹ A man travels the world in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

ᴿᴹ Minds are like parachutes; they only function when they're open.

ᴿᴹ Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

ᴿᴹ Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

ᴿᴹ If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

ᴿᴹ He is lifeless that is faultless.

ᴿᴹ It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

ᴿᴹ Two's company, three's the result.

ᴿᴹ Great souls have wills. Feeble souls only have wishes.

ᴿᴹ Beware of the fury of the patient man.

ᴿᴹ I could have been a billiards player, but nobody gave me a break.

ᴿᴹ The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

ᴿᴹ Strive for perfection in everything that you do.

ᴿᴹ Always act as if your acts were seen.

ᴿᴹ If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

ᴿᴹ We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

ᴿᴹ Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

ᴿᴹ To endure is greater than to dare.

ᴿᴹ The tongue is the deadliest of all blunt instruments.

ᴿᴹ Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.

ᴿᴹ If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

ᴿᴹ There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

ᴿᴹ Obstacles are what a person sees when he takes his eyes off the goal.

ᴿᴹ A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

ᴿᴹ One always has he air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

ᴿᴹ Learn politeness from the impolite.

ᴿᴹ A pessimist is a man who looks both way before crossing a one-way street.

ᴿᴹ One kind word can warm three winter months.

ᴿᴹ To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

ᴿᴹ He who does not think much of himself is greater than he believes to be.

ᴿᴹ Some go through a forest and see no firewood.

ᴿᴹ And all for love, and nothing for reward.

ᴿᴹ If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

ᴿᴹ In the kingdom of hope, there is no such season as winter.

ᴿᴹ If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.

ᴿᴹ The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

ᴿᴹ A little axe can cut down a big tree.

ᴿᴹ Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart.

ᴿᴹ What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness from your mouth.

ᴿᴹ Don't be humble, you're not that great.

ᴿᴹ A year from today, you may wish you started today.

ᴿᴹ We are all richer than we think we are.

ᴿᴹ Truth, like oil, will come to the surface at last.

ᴿᴹ Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

ᴿᴹ Opportunity seldom knocks twice.

ᴿᴹ Usefulness is the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

ᴿᴹ Each man is the architect of his own destiny.

ᴿᴹ Take time to think; it is the source of power.

ᴿᴹ All flatters live at the expense of those who listen to them.

ᴿᴹ If you can't convince them, confuse them.

ᴿᴹ It is not the lack of love, but the lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

ᴿᴹ Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

ᴿᴹ Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.

ᴿᴹ Improvement begins with 'I'.

ᴿᴹ You cannot fight against the future.

ᴿᴹ Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.

ᴿᴹ Eating words will never give you indigestion.

ᴿᴹ Don't find fault, find a remedy.

ᴿᴹ We are rich or poor, according to what we are, not what we have.

ᴿᴹ Opportunities are multiplied as they are seized.

ᴿᴹ Failure begins when you stop trying to succeed.

ᴿᴹ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

ᴿᴹ All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

ᴿᴹ It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

ᴿᴹ A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

ᴿᴹ Well done is better than well said.

ᴿᴹ Work out your own salvation; do not depend on others.

ᴿᴹ Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.

ᴿᴹ In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the impossible.

ᴿᴹ Experience is never limited and it is never complete.

ᴿᴹ There's nothing like a cocktail party to find out who your true friends were.

ᴿᴹ It is not death that we should fear, but that we should fear, never beginning to live.

ᴿᴹ Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

ᴿᴹ Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

ᴿᴹ The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat.

ᴿᴹ When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

ᴿᴹ Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

ᴿᴹ The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

ᴿᴹ Not all those who know their minds, know their hearts as well.

ᴿᴹ Pain is temporary, glory is forever.

ᴿᴹ Freedom is a state of mind, and not of being.

ᴿᴹ It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

ᴿᴹ We all find time to do what we really want to do.

ᴿᴹ We are never so happy or so unhappy as we imagine.

ᴿᴹ It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

ᴿᴹ Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.

ᴿᴹ It's a wise man who holds his tongue when he is right.

ᴿᴹ A word and a stone, once launched, cannot be recalled.

ᴿᴹ An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

ᴿᴹ You can only share by giving away.

ᴿᴹ It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

ᴿᴹ Instead of counting your days, make your days count.

ᴿᴹ If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

ᴿᴹ Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

ᴿᴹ Worry is like a rocking chair, keeps on going but never gets you anywhere.

ᴿᴹ It's not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.

ᴿᴹ Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.

ᴿᴹ It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

ᴿᴹ The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools can be right sometimes.

ᴿᴹ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

ᴿᴹ Sports does not build character; it reveals it.

ᴿᴹ Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

ᴿᴹ The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

ᴿᴹ Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

ᴿᴹ What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

ᴿᴹ The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now.

ᴿᴹ Deal with the faults of your own as gently as you do with others.

ᴿᴹ Keep your eyes open before marriage and half-closed afterwards.

ᴿᴹ A controlled mind is one of the greatest blessings one can enjoy in this world.

ᴿᴹ There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks all of them.

ᴿᴹ The world is a comedy to those who think; and a tragedy to those who feel.

ᴿᴹ Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

ᴿᴹ It's not the employer who pays wages he only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.

ᴿᴹ Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour.

ᴿᴹ Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

ᴿᴹ Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.

ᴿᴹ If you don't like beans, you shouldn't open the tin.

ᴿᴹ He, who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second time.

ᴿᴹ Perseverance is not a long race; it's many short races, one after another.

ᴿᴹ Learning without thinking is a waste of energy.

ᴿᴹ He who builds, according to everyone's advice will have a crooked house.

ᴿᴹ Luck is something a man goes to some length to create.

ᴿᴹ A minute of success pays for years of failure.

ᴿᴹ A friend is someone who knows everything about you; and still likes you.

ᴿᴹ Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can read.

ᴿᴹ Graveyards are full of indispensable men.

ᴿᴹ Happiness is an intermediate station between too little and too much.

ᴿᴹ It's very easy to spend other people's money.

ᴿᴹ Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

ᴿᴹ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

ᴿᴹ Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

ᴿᴹ The truth is more important than the facts.

ᴿᴹ The wisest men follow their own direction.

ᴿᴹ The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

ᴿᴹ Every success is founded on numerous failures.

ᴿᴹ Are you playing to win, or are you only taking part in the game?

ᴿᴹ Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.

ᴿᴹ Admitting we are wrong is a modest way of showing we have grown wiser.

ᴿᴹ Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

ᴿᴹ Children grow by leaps and bounds especially in the apartment overhead.

ᴿᴹ To change and to improve are two different things.

ᴿᴹ The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.

ᴿᴹ What matters in life is not what you are, but what you do.

ᴿᴹ In the book of life, the answers aren't written in the back.

ᴿᴹ Don't minimise risk; maximise opportunity.

ᴿᴹ The thing that doesn't fit is always the most interesting.

ᴿᴹ Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

ᴿᴹ In seedtime learn, in harvest time teach, in winter enjoy.

ᴿᴹ A laugh is smile broken out of jail.

ᴿᴹ He gives twice who gives promptly.

ᴿᴹ Don't say 'if only'; say 'next time'.

ᴿᴹ In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

ᴿᴹ The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

ᴿᴹ Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

ᴿᴹ Winners never quit; quitters never win.

ᴿᴹ To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

ᴿᴹ Alimony; a case where a man goes from co-starring spot to a supporting role.

ᴿᴹ A pound of fret can't pat an ounce of debt.

ᴿᴹ Failure to prepare is preparing. to fail.

ᴿᴹ Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

ᴿᴹ A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.

ᴿᴹ Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

ᴿᴹ If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.

ᴿᴹ Don't curse the dark, light a candle.

ᴿᴹ Middle age is when you start eating what is good for you instead of what you like.

ᴿᴹ Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

ᴿᴹ The greatest strength is gentleness.

ᴿᴹ Self-praise is no recommendation.

ᴿᴹ Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

ᴿᴹ All doors open to courtesy.

ᴿᴹ Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognise them.

ᴿᴹ Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

ᴿᴹ Beware, so long as you live, of judging people by appearance.

ᴿᴹ Beware, so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

ᴿᴹ Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

ᴿᴹ The disadvantage to becoming wise is that you learn how foolish you've been.

ᴿᴹ It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

ᴿᴹ The only way to have a friend is to be one.

ᴿᴹ A wise man never knows it all; only fools know everything.

ᴿᴹ Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice.

ᴿᴹ Every man is guilty of all the good things he didn't do.

ᴿᴹ It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's depression you lose your own.

ᴿᴹ you grow up the day you have your first real laugh- at yourself.

ᴿᴹ There are three things extremely hard; steel, a diamond and to know one's self.

ᴿᴹ Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

ᴿᴹ We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are different and yet the same.

ᴿᴹ Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

ᴿᴹ Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

ᴿᴹ We are all alike, on the inside.

ᴿᴹ A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.

ᴿᴹ Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

ᴿᴹ Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

ᴿᴹ When angry; count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

ᴿᴹ He who likes to generalise, generally lies.

ᴿᴹ Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

ᴿᴹ The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

ᴿᴹ You cannot shake hands with clenched fist.

ᴿᴹ Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

ᴿᴹ Don't compromise yourself; you are all you've got.

ᴿᴹ In war time, there is no substitute for victory.

ᴿᴹ If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

ᴿᴹ The price of greatness is responsibility.

ᴿᴹ Someone who will steal from me will steal from me.

ᴿᴹ It's never too late to be what you might have been.

ᴿᴹ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

ᴿᴹ An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

ᴿᴹ Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

ᴿᴹ Don't bargain for fish that are still in water.

ᴿᴹ Luck is the idol of the idle.

ᴿᴹ The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

ᴿᴹ The cream of today is the cheese of tomorrow.

ᴿᴹ Be true to your work, your word and your friend.

ᴿᴹ He who endures, conquers.

ᴿᴹ Leaving no stone unturned can sometimes ruin the path.

ᴿᴹ The first step is the hardest.

ᴿᴹ When trouble goes to sleep, don't set the alarm clock.

ᴿᴹ A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

ᴿᴹ A child miseducated is a child lost.

ᴿᴹ Love is like measles; we all have to go through it.

ᴿᴹ If opportunities doesn't knock, build a door.

ᴿᴹ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

ᴿᴹ Suspense is worse than disappointment.

ᴿᴹ A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

ᴿᴹ A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

ᴿᴹ If you're sitting on top of the world, remember it turns over every 24 hours.

ᴿᴹ A stumble may prevent a fall.

ᴿᴹ He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news yet.

ᴿᴹ That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

ᴿᴹ Words may show a man's wit but actions show his meaning.

ᴿᴹ He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

ᴿᴹ Love all, trust few, do wrong to none.

ᴿᴹ He that is good for making good excuses is seldom good for anything else.

ᴿᴹ There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

ᴿᴹ The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.