wisdom-quotes

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

- Thomas Edison

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.

- Dale Carnegie

Be gentle with yourself.

- Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

- Dale Carnegie

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

Never get satisfied. The minute you stop trying, you go downhill.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

- Dale Carnegie

Words have power. Most people speak words that increase body stress and turn the body's pH from alkaline to acidic. Words can change the way we think and feel.

- Kevin Trudeau

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

I always tell people - buy local, buy organic. Find your farmer's markets, go and buy by the case, get the case discounts, start filling up your homes with produce.

- Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

There can be miracles when you believe.

- Whitney Houston

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

- Dale Carnegie

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

- Dale Carnegie

Researchers have concluded that speaking the correct form of words and thinking the correct thoughts actually changes a person's DNA.

- Kevin Trudeau

Your job is to give your body as many nutrients as you can so it can do it's job.

- Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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