Wisdom Quotes - Page 14

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.