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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
02
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
03
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
04
Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.
Ronald Reagan
05
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Maya Angelou
06
Love what you do and do what you love; otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.
Alan Sugar
07
It is hope which maintains most of mankind.
Sophocles
08
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.
Samuel Sachs
09
Your inner light is what makes you beautiful.
Mary Davis
10
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
11
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
12
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
13
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
14
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
15
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
16
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
17
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
Benjamin Franklin
18
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
19
My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.
Charles Spurgeon
20
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
21
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal
22
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
23
Do not be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
26
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus
27
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
28
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Marcus Aurelius
29
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
30
To love and to be wise is impossible.
Spanish proverbs
31
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
32
Hope and expectation are a fool's income.
Danish proverbs
33
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
34
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve
35
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
Lyn Yutang
36
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton
37
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Collette
38
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
Charles Spurgeon
39
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
40
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
41
Don't shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him.
C.S Lewis
42
Make hay while the sun shines.
English proverbs
43
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa
44
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
45
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
46
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
47
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
48
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
49
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
50
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Thomas Jefferson