Quotes of Wisdom

 I love quotes of wisdom. Here are some of my favorite. Enjoy.

Mark Twain
“He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.”

Norman Vincent Peale
“Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.”

Savage Landor
“We talk on principle, but we act on interest.”

Brian Koslow
“Any self-made millionaire listens for opportunity. The average
person listens for what’s wrong and why something won’t work.”

Arie de Geus
“The ability to learn faster than your competitors
may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.”

Bob Burg
“The successful networkers I know, the ones receiving tons
of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves,
continually put the other person’s needs ahead of their own.”

Nancy Friday
“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child,
I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”

Anais Nin
“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”

Abraham Lincoln
“He has a right to criticize, who has the heart to help.”

Stephen Covey
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

G.B. Stern
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”

Author unknown
“Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can
become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.”

Will Rogers
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association
with smarter people.”

Joseph Joubert
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question
without debating it.”

Chinese Proverb
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”

Richard Moss,
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”

Author unknown
“Any belief worth having must survive doubt.”

Voltaire
“If you wish to speak with me, define your terms.”

Dale Carnegie
“There is only one way … to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.”