Wise Quotes About Life
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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ”
“The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention. ”
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Source: Quoted by Gerald Gawalt in " In His Own Words: Library Exhibition Celebrates Tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/franklin.html"
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.”
Source: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”
This witticism derived from William Shakespeare's line "To be or not to be; that is the question" in Hamlet, has sometimes been attributed to Hein, but also to many others. The earliest occurrence so far located in research for Wikiquote was published in A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths (1930) by William Marias Malisoff.
Misattributed
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages ))
Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229.
A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words"
However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' "
Attributed
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.”
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.”
Oscar Wilde, p. 1
They Both Die at the End (2017)