1. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost 

2. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. - John C. Maxwell 

3. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 

4. Who is wise in love, love most, say least. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 

5. Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine 

6. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. - Saint Augustine 

7. It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. - Epictetus 

8. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. - Epictetus 

9. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso 

10. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn 

11. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn 

12. If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. - Yogi Berra 

13. You can observe a lot by watching. - Yogi Berra 

14. Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. - Diogenes 

15. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison 

16. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. - Thomas A. Edison 

17. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - Coco Chanel 

18. Habit is the nursery of errors. - Victor Hugo 

19. Wisdom is a sacred communion. - Victor Hugo 

20. The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. - Colin Powell 

21. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. - Colin Powell 

22. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud 

23. Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

24. To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. - Margaret Thatcher 

25. If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. - Margaret Thatcher 

26. When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

27. Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. - Joseph Campbell 

28. The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. - Ayn Rand 

29. In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. - Arthur Schopenhauer 

30. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley 

31. There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens 

32. Wise men make more opportunities than they find. - Francis Bacon 

33. It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon 

34. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon 

35. No man was ever wise by chance. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

36. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell 

37. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake 

38. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin Disraeli 

39. Man is only great when he acts from passion. - Benjamin Disraeli 

40. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. - Rabindranath Tagore

41. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James 

42. If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. - Leo Buscaglia 

43. Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. - D. H. Lawrence 

44. Applause is a receipt, not a bill. - Dale Carnegie 

45. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. - Calvin Coolidge 

46. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. - Lord Byron 

47. Never find fault with the absent. - Alexander Pope 

48. Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. - Alexander Pope 

49. Memory is the mother of all wisdom. - Aeschylus 

50. Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. - Aeschylus 

51. Plodding wins the race. - Aesop 

52. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. - Aesop 

53. Appearances are often deceiving. - Aesop 

54. Please all, and you will please none. - Aesop 

55. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. - John D. Rockefeller 

56. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. - Elbert Hubbard 

57. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. - Richard M. Nixon 

58. No one wants advice - only corroboration. - John Steinbeck 

59. It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck 

60. All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. - Saint Teresa of Avila 

61. It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Michel de Montaigne 

62. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

63. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

64. I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

65. The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

66. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. - Og Mandino 

67. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

68. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana 

69. Wisdom comes by disillusionment. - George Santayana 

70. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow 

71. None knows the weight of another's burden. - George Herbert 

72. Start wide, expand further, and never look back. - Arnold Schwarzenegger 

73. We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. - Henry Ward Beecher 

74. Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. - Henry Ward Beecher 

75. It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? - Jim Carrey 

76. You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. - Denis Waitley 

77. Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles 

78. Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. - Sophocles 

79. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. - Sophocles 

80. It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

81. When you doubt, abstain. - Ambrose Bierce 

82. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. - Thomas Fuller 

83. It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. - Desiderius Erasmus 

84. Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. - W. Clement Stone 

85. You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? - W. Clement Stone 

86. A closed mouth catches no flies. - Miguel de Cervantes 

87. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. - Robert H. Schuller 

88. Trouble shared is trouble halved. - Lee Iacocca 

89. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. - Baruch Spinoza 

90. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. - Horace 

91. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace 

92. The soul's joy lies in doing. - Percy Bysshe Shelley 

93. Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides

94. Leave no stone unturned. - Euripides 

95. First appearance deceives many. - Ovid 

96. Every silver lining has a cloud. - Mary Kay Ash 

97. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. - Orison Swett Marden 

98. It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. - Orison Swett Marden 

99. I didn't get where I am today by worrying' about how I'd feel tomorrow. - Ron White 

100. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. - Archimedes