Wisdom.
Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era
№ 01
“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