Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related Quotes:

" Children are all foreigners. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. "

" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "

" Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. "

" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "

Robert W. Service

" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The doors of wisdom are never shut. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. "

Omar N. Bradley

" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "

" This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. "

" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

Lord John Russell

" Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

Henry David Thoreau

" There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. "

" I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart. "

Peter A. Levine

" I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk. "

Robert J. Shiller

" Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. "

" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "

" Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27. "

Solange Knowles

" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. "

" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "