Wisdom Quotes

"The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

- Yogi Berra

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."

- Earl Weaver

"Setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache."

- Kobe Bryant

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."

- Douglas Adams

"Time ripens all things, no man is born wise."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"Don’t take advice from someone who’s never played the part."

- Preethi Kasireddy

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

- Mark Twain

"You become wise when you realize only a handful of things are worth it."

- Maxime Lagacé

"The smarter you get, the less you react when it’s not worth it."

- @orangebook

"The sun does not forget a village just because it is small."

- African Proverb

"Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

- Sergei Rachmaninov

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

- Henry Thomas Buckle

"The eagle flies in the sky, but nests on the ground."

- Albanian proverb

"An eagle will not catch flies."

- Italian Proverb

"No need to teach an eagle to fly."

- Greek Proverb

""Better light a candle, than curse the darkness.""

- Chinese Proverb

""Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one to find the gold.""

- Proverbs 11:27

"The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray."

- Proverbs 12:26

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."

- William Arthur Ward

"Angry people are not always wise."

- Jane Austen

"Speak when you are angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret."

- Laurence J. Peter

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

- Commonly attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

- Chinese Proverb

"Elephants and grandchildren never forget."

- Andy Rooney

"Never have children, only grandchildren."

- Gore Vidal

"Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric."

- Pam Brown

"Humility and simplicity will bring you far. Always come back to them."