Wisdom Quotes

Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

Life comes once, live wisely.

Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

Wisdom has a hundred eyes to see opportunities, courage has a hundred feet to seek opportunities, and strength has a hundred arms to seize opportunities.

Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.

The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.

Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

They know your face, but not your mind.They understand your words, but not your heart.They hear your name, but not your soul.They grasp your past, but not your future.

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

Sometimes the only way to gain someones favor is to stop giving them yours.

If you can dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.