What is your favorite wisdom quote?

Question

I need a slogan for my yearbook signing tomorrow. I already thought up some. What would be some that I should use as well? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

My absolute favorite quote is this: If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It means that it doesn't matter how popular or hyped up someone or something can be, in this case a somone fits better, if you do your best and flourish and whatever you do you do it correctly and the best then it doesn't matter if you're unheard of or cast a side, or unpopular, everyone will find a way of finding you because it's the quality not the hype of things.

Here are others I like also:Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. So stand through life firm as a rock in the sea...undisturbed and unmoved by its ever rising waves." -Unknown

the most destructive habit...worry.
the most satisfying work..helping others.
the worlds most incredible computer..the brain.
the most powerful force in life..love.
the most beautiful attire..smiling.
the most worthless emotion..self pity.
the worst thing to be without....hope.

Answer 2

"A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something." - Plato

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life." - Sandra Carey

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." - James Boswell

"For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it." - Proverbs 8:11

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein

I hope those help. Happy Summer!!

Answer 3

Too err is human but when the eraser runs out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Answer 4

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." ~~ e.e. cummings

Or,

"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom." ~~ e.e. cummings

Answer 5

"Life is like a grapefruit. It's squishy and pink and has pips.
And some people have half of one for breakfast."
Douglas Adams

Answer 6

" Woods are lovely, dark and deep,
but I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep,
and miles to go before I sleep."

It's from 'Stopping by Woods in a Snowy Evening', a highly celebrated poem by Robert Frost.

Answer 7

"It is never too late, to be what you could have been". This has been a comfort to me as an older person that thought it was too late do to things that I had not done.

Answer 8

"Life is like a non-stop moving roller coaster that every human fears and must deal with, but you have to be the first one who gets on it and conquer the fear, or else it will ride you".

Answer 9

"Never give up, never give up. Never, never, never give up."
-Wiston Churchhill

They asked him to come to a graduation ceremony and asked for words of wisdom .That is all he said and sat back down.

Answer 10

If I am not for myself, who will be?
If I am for myself only, what am I?
If not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel