Quotes About Wisdom

Good leaders listen, learn, and then lead.

Inventor Charles F. Kettering said, "There is a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Nicolás Maquiavelo dijo: "El primer método para calcular la inteligencia de un gobernante es observar a los hombres que lo rodean".

Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

Achievement comes from the habit of good thinking.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose." It also makes them think they don't need to learn.

Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.

to act on what you learn is all that really matters.

Muchos tienen éxito inmediato por lo que saben; Algunos tienen éxito temporal por lo que hacen; pero Pocos logran éxito permanente por lo que son.

I have had to let go of my need to be right and focus on the greater need to do right.

President Abraham Lincoln said, "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

This has to do with planning. It's better to look ahead and prepare than look back and regret.

the leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: "God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

knowledge alone is not power. Knowledge has value only in the hands of someone who has the ability to think well. People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

Se dice que un individuo sabio aprende de sus errores, uno más sabio aprende de los errores de los demás, pero el más sabio aprende del éxito de los demás. Hoy

If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.

Al preguntar cómo podemos maximizar nuestras experiencias, les sacamos el mayor provecho.

Discouraged? Don't be, for the one thing that really matters, lasts forever—your friendships. Life is too long to spend it with people who pull you in the wrong direction. And it's too short not to invest in others. Your relationships will define you. And they will influence your talent—one way or the other. Choose wisely. —

A mistake is only a failure if you don't learn from it. —ROLAND NIEDNAGEL

Good thinking will improve your life. It will help you to become an achiever.

You may be an exceptional leader who has gone unrecognized. Or you may be someone who possesses no status or official authority. Do not let that stop you from doing the right thing. Never underestimate the power of one small act. Exercise the wisdom God has given you by putting it into action. There's no telling what God may do with it.

Critic Samuel Johnson advised that "he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove.

The longest distance between two points is a shortcut." That's really true. For everything of value in life, you pay a price.

Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.