Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

714 Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes
“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
William C. Bryant Quotes
“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”
Ghose Aurobindo Quotes
“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.”
Roger Babson Quotes
“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”
Henry Clay Quotes
“Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.”
Robert Freeman Quotes
“Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.”
Fogg Brackell Quotes
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
Georg Hegel Quotes
“To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.”
Richard Baker Quotes
“The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.”
Rona Barrett Quotes
“Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.”
Shashi Deshpande Quotes
“Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers Quotes
“I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.”
Ben Hecht Quotes
“We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.”
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Quotes
“Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.”
Alford Quotes
“The most complex things are the simplest.”
Agni Celeste Quotes
“You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.”
Dr. Robert Anthony Quotes
“A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.”
Edward William Bok Quotes
“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”
Benjamin F. Fairless Quotes
“I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.”
G. W. Follin Quotes
“The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.”
Walter Duranty Quotes
“It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.”
Keith Bellows Quotes
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Kin Hubbard Quotes
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
Aeschylus Quotes
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.”
Cicely Tyson Quotes
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