The secret - collection of inspirational quotes ( part 14 )

He who lives with the wolf learns to howl.

-- Italian Proverb

You teach best what you most need to learn.

-- Richard Bach

Habit is a shirt that we wear till death.

-- Russian Proverb

We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.

-- Anaïs Nin

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

-- Josh Billings

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

-- William Hazlitt

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

-- Joan Baez

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

-- Antoine de St. Exupery

It is within thy power, whenever thou shalt choose, to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Courage is the capacity to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

-- Doug Larson

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

-- Doris Lessing

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

-- Calvin Coolidge

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

-- Henry David Thoreau

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

-- Richard Bach

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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