Elevate Your Mind: 325 Wise Sayings to Inspire Personal Growth

They say that wisdom comes with age, and these wise sayings and wisdom quotes will give you better judgment and a sense of purpose in life.

We could all use a little more wisdom to help us make it through the day.

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What are the benefits of reading these wise quotes?

These quotes are from famous people, authors, and influential figures who we could all learn something from.

Old sayings and the wise words of others can help you:

• Learn from the mistakes of others
• Gain perspective from people who see things differently
• Make better choices

Learning from someone else’s wisdom can save us some heartbreak and help us make better decisions daily!

Inspiring and wise sayings about life

1. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

3. “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”  ― Gautama Buddha

4. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

6. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey

7. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire

8. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

9.  “You can never plan the future by the past.” — Edmund Burke

10. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

11. “Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.” ― Bob Dylan

12. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” ― Gautama Buddha

13. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

14. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” ―Rumi

15. “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” ―Irving Berlin

16. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato

17. “People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

18. “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows. In every rill a sweet instruction flows.” – Edward Young

19. “It’s not the load that weighs you down, it’s how you carry it.” – C.S. Lewis

20. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise sayings about life and living it to your best

21. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

22. “Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” – Francis Bacon

23. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

24. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

25. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

26. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

27. “Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” – Rebecca West

28. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

29. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz

30. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Wise sayings about life lessons

31. “If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.” ― Miguel Ruiz

The only thing worse than making assumptions is to believe them.

32. “Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”―Paulo Coelho

33. “I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.” – Drew Barrymore

34. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – The Notebook

35. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ” ― Anthony Robbins

36. “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”  ― Dalai Lama XIV

37. “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami

38. “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everything you do and have done has gotten you closer to who you really are and who you aspire to be. So in essence, even if you disagree with what you have done, it was never time wasted.

39. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley

40. “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

Wise sayings to help us learn

41. “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.” – Al Franken

42. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” ― Gautama Buddha

43. “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

44. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Harper Lee

45. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.” – Unknown

46. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

47. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein

48. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Gautama Buddha

49. “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

50. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John C. Maxwell

Wise sayings to broaden your thoughts

51. “In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”– Theodor Reik

52. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican

53. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle

54. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

55. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt

​56. “No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.” – Winston Churchill

57. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”– Les Brown

​58. “An unexamined life is not worth living.”– Socrates

59. “Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others.” – Wally Amos

​60. “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”– Vince Lombardi

61. “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore

62. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” ​– Eleanor Roosevelt

64. “I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.”– C.G. Jung

65. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”– Stephen Chbosky

Wise sayings and quotes to enlighten you

66. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy

67. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron

68. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

69. “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

70. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

71. Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” – Gary Keller

72. “Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” – Dale Carnegie

73. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide

74. “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown

75. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London

Wise sayings about life that will move you

76. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” —John D. Rockefeller

77. “Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.” – Paulo Coelho

78. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

79. “Each of us experiences defeats in life. We can transform defeat into victory if we learn from life’s whippings.” – Les Brown

80. “When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” —George C. Marshall

81. “If we manage ego wisely, we get the upside it delivers followed by strong returns.” – Dave Marcum

82. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke

83. “Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.” – Lord Chesterfield

84. “There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles.” – Stephen Covey

85. “…just because we feel a certain way doesn’t make that feeling a fact. It only means that we feel that way. We must learn to press past our feelings.” – Joyce Meyer

Wise sayings about life to encourage you

86. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

87. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”– Harold Kushner

88. “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.” – Shad Helmstetter

89. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy

90. “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”– Vivian Komori

91. Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

92. “All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”– Ming-Dao Deng

93. “Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love.” – Maxime Lagacé

94. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience, and being persistent.” – Billy Graham

95. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

Wise sayings to brighten your day

96. “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.” – Cat Cora

97. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”— Benjamin Disraeli

98. “Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” – Thomas J. Watson

99. “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal

100. “Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.” – Henri Bergson

101. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”– Florence Nightingale

102. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau

103. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”– Abraham Lincoln

104. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

105. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”– Richard Branson

Wise sayings to inspire success

106. “Life isn’t complicated if you don’t break your concentration on your true vision.” – Robert Randle

107. “Wake up to realities! Real life is all about real things!”― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

108. “Life is like a roller coaster / you will have your ups and your downs / you just need to get over it.” – Angelina Sabia

109. “Be smart, not impulsive!”― Bohdi Sanders

110. “Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.” – Benjamin Disraeli

111. “It’s easier to be wise for others than for yourself.”― R.J. Lawrence

112. “Life is a lively process of becoming.” – Douglas Macarthur

113. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia

114. “If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”― Germany Kent

115. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”– Albert Ellis

Wise sayings to elevate your thoughts

116. “Life is given to us / we earn it by giving it.” – Rabindranath Tagore

117. “Never let anyone put you in chains.”― Abhijit Naskar

118. “Life is a divine adventure.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

119. “A wise person says well what he or she thinks, but is wary of himself or herself and what he or she says.”― Lamine Pearlheart

120. “Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.” – Condoleezza Rice

121. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton

122. “If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.”― E.A. Bucchianeri

123. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzsche

124. “The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

125. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare

Wise sayings to live by

126. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”― J.K. Rowling

127. “The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”― Hamza Yusuf

128. “Laughter is poison to fear.”― George R.R. Martin

129. “I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”― Joseph Stalin

130. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”― Karl Lagerfeld

131. “Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential.”― Anna Gould

132. “I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.”― Michael Bassey Johnson

133. “The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”― Ryan Lilly

134. “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”― Jodi Picoult

135. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn

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Wise sayings and words of advice

136. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”― Roy T. Bennett

137. “Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”― Joel Osteen

138. “Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.”― Roy T. Bennett

139. “No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.”― Michael Bassey Johnson

140. “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”― Horace

141. “I don’t agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.”― Hark Herald Sarmiento

142. “The wisest men follow their own direction.”― Euripides

143. “True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”― Suzy Kassem

144. “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”― Helen Keller

145. “Advantages never come free. You have to create it the way you want it!”― Ashish Patel

Positive and wise sayings

146. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

147. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

148. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

149. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

150. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

151. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

152. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius

153. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James

154. “Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not.” – Epictetus

155. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

Wise sayings to inspire you to success in life

156. “Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.” – Maxime Lagacé

157. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard

158. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

159. “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – St. Augustine

160. Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

161. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

162. “Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless.” – Maxime Lagacé

163. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

164. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump

165. “Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.” – Snoopy

Wise sayings to make the most out of your life

166. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

167. “Which way you choose to see your life in the future depends on your attitude today.” – Amy E. Dean

169. “We never have more than we can bear. The present hour we are always able to endure.” – H. E. Manning

168. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

170. Each person must live their life as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks

171. I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.” – Woodrow Wilson

172. “Do not be wise in words be wise in deeds.” – Jewish Proverb

173. “In simple manners all the secret lies. Be kind and virtuous, you’ll be blest and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

174. “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” – Albert Einstein

175. “Life often teaches us through our wrong turns and missed possibilities.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

More wise sayings about life

176. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa

177. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

178. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch

179. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

180. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair

181. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

182. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

183. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

184. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius

185. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Wise quotes to help you through life’s challenges

186. “Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin

187. “He that respects himself is safe from others.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

188. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

189. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into place.” — Lucille Ball

190. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

191. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

192. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

193. “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” — Dalai Lama

194. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

195. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” — Nelson Mandela

Wise sayings about success

196. Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Arthur Ashe

197. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

198. “Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” – Paul J. Meyer

199. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

200. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

201. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier

202. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

203. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos

204. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey

205. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

More wise sayings to inspire and teach

206. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”― Mae West

207. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King

208. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”― Oscar Wilde

209. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”― Cassandra Clare

210. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”― Allen Saunders

211. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”― Roy T. Bennett

212. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”― Kurt Vonnegut

213. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”― Margaret Mitchell

214. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”― Albert Einstein

215. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Short Wise Sayings

216. “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” – Tina Fey

217. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” – Helen Keller

218. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet

219. “Life is too short to live others’ dreams.” – Catherine Pulsifer

220. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

221. “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” – Charles Schulz

222. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

223. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss

224. “Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey

225. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Anthony Robbins

Deep words of wisdom about life

226. “Short cuts make long delays.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

227. Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama

228. “There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.”― Noel DeJesus

229. “Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.” – Stephen Covey

230. “If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”
― Germany Kent

231. “Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action.” – Robert Fulghum

232. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

233. “Thank you consists of just eight letters that form two of the most meaningful words in the English vocabulary.” – Deborah Norville

234. “The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.” – Tim Rice

235. “Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.” – Les Brown

Wise Sayings About Life That Will Change Your Perspective

236. “To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

237. “There is a time to plan, a time to act, and a time to rest; it is wise to know which is which.” ― Emily Rodda

238. “Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ― Roy Bennett

239. “The only way to see everything, my dear, is to see it absolutely.” ― Sherry Lynn Ferguson

240. “Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” ― Suzy Kassem

241. “Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.” ― Suzy Kassem

242. “Your life is not a simulation; it’s the real game. Play wisely.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

243. “A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.” ― Leigh Bardugo

244. “A man without dignity is a man without hope.” ― Andreas Chrysaphēs

245. “Using pride wisely requires a solid grasp of when and why it can go wrong.” ― David DeSteno

Powerful Wise Sayings About Life To Keep You Going 

246. “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” — Henry Ford

247. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

248. “You don’t get character because you’re successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.” — Herman Edwards

249. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” — Confucius

250. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn

251. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis

252. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius

253. “The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.” — Denis Waitley

254. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein

255. “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” — Oprah Winfrey

Wise Quotes To Help You Change Your Life For Better

256. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

257. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” ― Mark Twain

258. “Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.” ― Quintilian

259.  “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our 

lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.” ― Ronald Reagan

260. “You’ve heard that it’s wise to learn from experience, but it is wiser to learn from the experience of others.” ― Rick Warren

261. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” ― Wayne Dyer

262. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” ― Tony Robbins

263. We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

264. “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” ― Rick Warren

265. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” ― Aristotle

Wise Sayings About Life To Keep You Pushing Through

266. “Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?” ― Elizabeth Scott

267. “Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.” ― George Bernard Shaw

268. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” ― Albert Einstein

269. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Breault

270. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius

271. “Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour

272. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus

273. “Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.” ― Louisa May Alcott

274. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ― Maya Angelou

275. “Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.” ― Mark Twain

Wise Sayings About Life That Offer Guidance and Inspiration

276. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” ― Arthur Rubinstein

277. “When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.” ― Sara Teasdale

278. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” ― Sholom Aleichem

279. Life is what happens to you while you’re planning on doing something else.” ― John Lennon

280. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.” ― Vernon Howard

281. “Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.” ― Robert Breault

282. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.” ― Marilyn Monroe

283. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” ― Marcus Aurelius

284. “Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” ― Carl Sandburg

285. “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” ― Tim McGraw

Wise Life Sayings to Reflect on Life’s Journey

286. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ― Les Brown

287. “Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” ― Keri Russell

288. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle

289. “If you stop struggling, then you stop life.” ― Huey Newton

290. “Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour

291. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ― Bruce Lee

292. You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Virginia Woolf

293. “We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” ― Lauryn Hill

294. “Character develops itself in the stream of life.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

295. “A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.” ― Chin-Ning Chu

Timeless Wise Sayings About Life to Live By

296. “A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.” — Confucius

297. “It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.” — George Jackson

298. “He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.” — Solomon

299. “You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey

300. “Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.” — Timothy Keller

301. “Silence is the best answer to a fool.” — Nnedi Okorafor

302. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” — Immanuel Kant

303. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

304. “The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.” — William Wordsworth

305. “You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.” — Oprah Winfrey

Reflecting on Life’s Lessons Through Wise Sayings About Life

306. “May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

307. “As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.” — Ernest Hemingway

308. “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” — Helen Keller

309. “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” — Mark Twain

310. “He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!” — Horace

311. “To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.” — Peter Ustinov

312. “You can’t get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.” — Neil Peart

313. “Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.” — Robert Breault

314. “Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.” — Robert Breault

315. To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.” — Plutarch

316. “What your soul desires, is ultimately what you need.” ― Robin S. Baker

317. “Wisdom depends on knowledge but the presence of knowledge may not necessarily mean the presence of wisdom.” ― Kathirasan K

318. “Wisdom recognises wholeness and the value of being wholesome.” ― Kathirasan K

319. “Work with the timing of the moon phases. It’s an easy cheat code.” ― Robin S. Baker

320. “A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.” ― Raheel Farooq

321. “Eyes reveal what words hide.” ― Soroosh Shahrivar

322. “There is no greater inspiration to a life than finding and following its valuable path.” ― Roger Spitz

323. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.” ― William Shakespeare

324. “The principle of “first things first” only works if you have the right list in the right order.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

325. “The secret of my health; I inhale books.” ― Meghna Sodha

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