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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Wisdom begins at the end.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.