PEARLS OF WISDOM
Here are some of our favourite ideas, thoughts, and “pearls” of wisdom.
Life’s tragedy is that we get too old too soon and wise too late - Benjamin Franklin
A rising tide lifts all boats – John F. Kennedy
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. - Ronald Reagan
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re always right! - Henry Ford
What we permit, we promote. - Unknown
The one that follows the crowd will generally get no further than the crowd.
The one that travels alone, is likely to find himself in places that no one has ever been. – Albert Einstein
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. - Stephen R. Covey
No one can do everything, but everyone can do something! - Unknown
Anyone can captain the ship when the sea is calm. - Polish Proverb
A woman is like a teabag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who will gossip to you, will gossip about you. - Turkish Proverb
Keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you ever have to eat them. - Unknown
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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. - The Prayer of Serenity
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - C.S. Lewis
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right. - Albert Einstein
Where the mind goes the body will follow. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out! - James B. Conant
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. - Buddhist Proverb
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. - Viktor E. Frankl
"If a man has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake; that will be punishment — as well as the prison."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime & Punishment.