Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. Frank McCourt The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. John Stuart Mill There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Josh Billings There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. Amy Grant We are...

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector? David Icke Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England. Steve Coogan Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather. Ilka Chase And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can. Tom Felton Andy Warhol made fame more famous. Fran Lebowitz Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of ...

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. Ezra Pound A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. Roy H. Williams A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. Catherine Deneuve A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. Jean-Paul Sartre All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is ne...

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. Joseph Roux People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. M. Scott Peck Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. John Ruskin Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. W. C. Fields Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. Tony Robbins The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. Alice Walker The key to education is the experience of beauty. Friedrich...

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. Sai Baba Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. Albert Bandura My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. Ally Sheedy My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. Agnetha Faltskog Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Walter Pater Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell Only t...

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. Joseph Roux What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes You can be happy where you are. Joel Osteen You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. Julia Roberts You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. Ernie Banks Your successes and happiness ar...

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. LL Cool J When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. Audre Lorde When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. Peter Marshall When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. Oprah Winfrey Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt Women may fall when there's no strength in men. William Shakespeare Worry does not empty tomorrow of its s...

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T. Washington Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W. H. Auden Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me. George Porter Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. Mattie Stepanek We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. Charles Stanley We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations. Sharon Salzberg We gain strength, and courag...

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. Elizabeth Edwards The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Robert Kiyosaki The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. Napoleon Bonaparte The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places...

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson Silence is a source of great strength. Lao Tzu Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future. Blanka Vlasic Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Norman Vincent Peale Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. Napoleon Hill Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. Judith Viorst Strength of character means...

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. Brian Tracy Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein Only the gentle are ever really strong. James Dean Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. Dag Hammarskjold Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other. Naomi Benaron Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. Dorothy Day Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music ha...

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo da Vinci I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. Joan Jett I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a w...

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. Shinichi Suzuki What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. Lady Gaga What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. John Keats When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. Grace Slick Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around. Jane Goodall You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that chara...

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice. David Petraeus The reason people need advice on using social media is that they’re a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email. Alexis Ohanian The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: ‘Do the dishes while you’re cooking.’ Lela Rose The worst piece of advice I’ve gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, ‘Remember, it’s all about likeability.’ Clive Owen There is nothing more hateful than bad advice. Sophocles This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It’s all the tradition. Omar Sharif Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. Richard M. Nixon We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. Tom Stopp...

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people. George Will Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us. John C. Maxwell Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there. David Zucker Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don’t fall prey to the freshmen fifteen! Cecily von Ziegesar So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don’t really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children. Walter Dean Myers So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers’ advice and from the counselor...

My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It’s something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs. Kate Voegele My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up – and I’m that person for sure. Cheryl Strayed My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term. Estelle Morris My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them. Christine Pelosi My first book was published...

Interestingly, young people don’t come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. Meryl Streep It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. Friedrich Schiller It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self. Francois de La Rochefoucauld It’s a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn’t matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions. Michael York It’s better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you’ll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi. Patricia Marx It’s hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it’s very presumptuous. Vidal Sassoon It’s queer how rea...

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice. Stellan Skarsgard I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria’s Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident – that made me feel very comfortable. Adriana Lima I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs. Mark Pincus I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I’ve started to choose my own things from time to time. Rafael Nadal I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you’re starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things. Beth Simone Noveck I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice. Alex Morrison I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all ...

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive. T. D. Jakes What is forgiven is usually well remembered. Louis Dudek When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. Gerald Jampolsky When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. Bernard Meltzer Without forgiveness, there's no future. Desmond Tutu You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean hav...

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi There is no forgiveness in nature. Ugo Betti There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. Bryant H. McGill There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings To be social is to be forgiving. Robert Frost To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes To understand is to forgive, even oneself. Alexander Chase We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. T. D. Jakes

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Jane Austen Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. Kevyn Aucoin Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. Bryant H. McGill The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future. John Sentamu The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. Tyler Perry The practice of forgiveness is our most important ...

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. Lana Turner Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Billy Graham Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. Bruce Lee My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person. Janine Turner Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich One forgives to the degree that one loves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. Bill Cosby

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself. T. D. Jakes If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. Nelson Mandela If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Friedrich Nietzsche If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough. Jud Wilhite Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. Gerald Jampolsky It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper It is very east to forgive oth...

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness. Sherri Shepherd I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. Mark Wahlberg I do not bring forgive...

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. Desmond Tutu Forgotten is forgiven. F. Scott Fitzgerald Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Alice Miller God forgives those who invent what they need. Lillian Hellman God will forgive me. It's his job. Heinrich Heine He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. T. D. Jakes Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Joan Lunden How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry f...

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. George Foreman Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. Dag Hammarskjold Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. George MacDonald Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. Jewel Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Saint Augustine Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky ...

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. Les Brown Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. Euripides Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. William Arthur Ward Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Indira Gandhi Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. T. D. Jakes Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in. Louise L. Hay Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. Mason Cooley Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. Joyce Meyer Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflict...

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. Robert Fripp All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. Dalai Lama Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again. Sharon Salzberg Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open th...