Wisdom Quotes

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

How do you know if you truly found the one? When loving her feels like a calling from God.

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.

Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.

Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.

If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.

If you surround yourself with people who don't care about you, be prepared for a life of misery.

When you count your blessings, count life twice.

A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.

One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.

A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.

If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.

If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.

A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.

I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Never set fire to a bridge while you are still crossing it.

Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.

If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.

If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.

While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet.

Live your best and leave the rest

If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.

The rainbow’s colors are hidden in the storm.

The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.

Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.

At her first bleeding a woman meets her power. During her bleeding years she practices it. At menopause she becomes it. Traditional Native American saying

I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world.

I hear you in the morning sun.

Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.