Quotes About Wisdom

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

The hardest game to win is a won game

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.