120 Quotations for All Occasions - Words of Wisdom

1. The style is the man.
2. Mind rules the universe.
3. Practice is everything.
4. The knowledge of the words is a gate of scholarship.
5. Where law ends, tyranny begins.
6. They think too little who talk too much.
7. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
8. Praise the sea but keep on land.
9. It is well to read everything of something and something of everything.
10. Progress is the activity of today and assurance of tomorroW.
11. Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
12. Actions are ours, there consequences belong to heaven.
13. Advice is seldom Welcome.
14. To accept good advice is but to increase ability.
15. No failure but low aim is a crime.
16. Anger begins in folly and ends in repentance
17. Men show their superiority inside; animals outside.
18. A work of real merit finds favour at last.
19. The perfection of art is to conceal it.
20. A thing of beauty is forever.
21. In belief lay the secret of all valuable exertion.
22. Fortune befriends the bold.
23. A good book is the best of friends.
24. Brevity is the soul of wit.
25. Every man has his price.
26. Calamity is man's true touchstone.
27. Look before you leap, see before you go.
28. The child is the father of man.
29. God loveth the clean
30. Colours speak all the languages.
31. Two's company, three's a crowd.
32. The pricky thorn often bears soft rose.
33. Society is built upon trust.
34. Delays have dangerous ends.
35. Man is his own worst enemy.
36. Time is the image of eternity.
37. Man is read in his face.
38. To believe only in possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy Fashion is the science of appearances.
39. Change your pleasure but do not change your friends.
40. Genius finds its own road.
41. Great lives never go out, they go on.
42. Grief is itself a medicine.
43. Hatred is self-punishment.
44. Haste is of the devil.
45. A good heart is worth gold.
46. Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
47. Home is where the heart is.
48. An honest man is the noblest work of God.
49. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
50. ideas control the World.
51. lignorance never settles a question.
52. No man was ever great by imitation.
53. Imagination is the eye of soul.
54. impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
55. Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
56. if you speak insults you shall also hear them.
57. intellect is the starlight of brain.
58. wish you all the joys that you can wish.
59. Be your own judge and you will be happy.
60. Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
61. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
62. He laughs best who laughs last.
63. Days of respite are golden days.
64. Good luck never comes too late.
65. Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
66. A modest man never talks of himself.
67. Necessity knows no laws.
68. Obedience is the mother of success.
69. So many men so many opinions.
70. Pain is the outcome of sin.
71. A picture is a poem without words.
72. Everything comes if a man will only wait.
73. The fewer words, the better prayer.
74. To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
75. Philosophy is the highest music.
76. The character is simply habit long continued.
77. All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state.
78. If you have no money be polite.
79. You can't shoot an idea.
80. lt is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
81. Birth is the beginning of death.
82. Excellent things are rare.
83. Laughter is good for Soul.
84. He that is proud eats up himself.
85. Pride ruined the angels.
86. Love is endurance forever.
87. Life is the supreme sacrifice.
88. Education begins with life.
89. Warfare is the negation of association.
90. Adversity is a better teacher than prosperity.
91. Desire is the mother of action.
92. It is no wonder that man fears poverty.
93. Envy is the great enemy of personality.
94. To die for liberty is a pleasure, not a pain.
95. Our praises are our wages.
96. Idleness is the holiday of fools.
97. Libraries are not made they grow.
98. Reality rarely matches dreams.
99. Quotations are crystallized philosophy.
100. You can do anything, but not everything. (David Allen)
101. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
102. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look-like a nail. (Abraham Maslow)
103. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)
104. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian)
105. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. (Basho)
106. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
     Watch your words; they become actions.
     Watch your actions; they become habits.
     Watch your habits, they become character.
     Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. (Lao-Tze)
     
107. Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
108. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
109. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
110. Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.
111. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run overif you just sit there. (Will Rogers)
112. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. (Einstein)
113. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
114. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)
115. I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer. (Aryeh Frimer)
116. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen Parr)
117. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (Erica Jong)
118. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. (Thomas Szasz)
119. It is well to read everything of something and something of everything.
120. Look before you leap, see before you go.