What is the wisest quotation you've ever known and you'll never forget? ...and by whom?

Question

Personally, I'll go with this one:

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great."

-Mark Twain-

How about you all then? Mind if you share it with me?

Answer 1

1. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

2. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

3. Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand. C.N. Bovee

4. We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. Unknown

5. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb

Answer 2

I have thousands. I love words. here are a few and I don't always know the source.

1) I just want to be the person my dog thinks I am.
2) Do everything with Love
3) I am not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk, alcoholics go to meetings
4) Jesus is coming....look busy
5) Drugs lead nowhere, but it's the scenic route
6) Love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the trip worthwhile.
7)Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a group
8) Keep honking....I'm reloading
9)Some people are still alive only because it is illegal to shoot them
10)Guns don't keep people, drivers with cellphones do.
11)Life is sexually transmitted
12)Insanity is inherited..... from your children
13)Learn from the weather, pay no attention to criticism
14)Politics the second oldest profession, closely resembles the first
15)Did you ever wonder why you gave me your email address?

Answer 3

Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
-Kahil Gibran

The man knew what he was talking about.

Answer 4

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

– from Confucius [The Analects]

The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.

~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu

Answer 5

There is food value in beer but no beer value in food - John Heagy, Past Commodore North Cape Yacht Club, LaSalle, MI

Answer 6

The principle difference between a man and a dog is that if you take a starving dog, feed him, and take him in, he will not bite you.

- Mark Twain

Answer 7

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

Answer 8

Obsticals are what you see when you take your eyes off you goals.- Henry Ford

It is better to remain quiet and to be thought stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -Unknown

This too shall pass. -Jesus Christ

Let them drag their **** in the dirt. Sooner or later they are going to step on it.- Unknown

Can't is a sluff word, too lazy to try. - Unknown, heavily used by my father.

A rose, by any other name, is still a rose. - I dont know.

The diference between ordinary people and extordinary people is their extrodinary amount of determination.- author unknown

Answer 9

Well, If I have doubts in performing any tasks that I am not confident of, I will always tell myself:

"If you never try, you never know."

This is what keeps me going and going. I forgot where I got this quote.

Answer 10

"Never let schooling get in the way of your education."
Mark Twain