Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

714 Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes
“Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“You create your opportunities by asking for them.”
Patty Hansen Quotes
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
Gerald Early Quotes
“Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.”
Faith Baldwin Quotes
“Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.”
P. B. Fitzwater Quotes
“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”
Felix Frankfurter Quotes
“A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.”
Cadman Quotes
“A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.”
John Carey Quotes
“What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.”
Monica Baldwin Quotes
“With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.”
Alfred Glossbrenner Quotes
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”
Henry L. Doherty Quotes
“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”
Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.”
Herbert Henry Lehman Quotes
“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.”
Sarah Caldwell Quotes
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...”
Robert Collier Quotes
“When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.”
Art Fettig Quotes
“My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.”
Franki Quotes
“Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.”
Mimfa A. Gibson Quotes
“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.”
Joe Girard Quotes
“Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.”
Don Stanford Quotes
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Harlan Ellison Quotes
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
Stanislaw J. Lec Quotes
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
Bonnie Lin Quotes
“Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.”
Lady Stella Reading Quotes
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
Gwynn Thomas Quotes