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Wise Quotes:


Change is you:


-        -  Believe in yourself.
-         - Be the change you wish to see in the world.
-         - Be just before you are generous.
-         - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
-         - Better yourself before others.
-         - Brains are better than brawn (physical force).
-         - Clothes don’t make the man.
-         - Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
-         - Honesty is the best policy.
-         - Without kindness there can be no true joy.
-         - When life’s path is steep (tough), keep your mind even (smooth).

Wisdom, knowledge and Education:

-        -  Character building begins in infancy and continues until death.
-         - Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.
-         - Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.
-         - A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last.
-         - A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
-         - There is no slavery but ignorance.
-         - Liberty is the child of intelligence.
-         - Great minds think alike.
-         - Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-         - When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come.
-         - Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-         - Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-         - A fool and his money are quickly parted.
-         - A little learning is a dangerous thing.
-         - Half the truth is often a whole lie.
-         - Words should be weighed not counted.
-         - Words once spoken can never be recalled.

Friends and acquaintances:

-        -  A friend in need is a friend indeed.
-         - Who is mighty? He who makes an enemy into a friend.
-         - Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
-        -  We will never know the worth of water till the well goes dry.
-         - A man is known by the company he keeps.
-        -  You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time.
-         - When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.
-         - What breaks in a moment, may take years to mend.
-         - Give assistance not advice in a crisis.
-         - A house divided cannot stand.

Share and care:

-        -  Do good and care not to whom.
-         - A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-         - One flower makes no garland.
-         - A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair.
-         - A gentle word opens the iron gate.
-         - A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds.

Do or Die:

-        -  Willing is not enough, we must do.
-         - No pain, no gain.
-         - Better do it than wish it done.
-         - Well begun is half done.
-         - Well done is better than well said.
-         - A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-         - A road twice travelled is never as long.
-         - Out of adversity comes opportunity.
-         - A little axe can cut down a big tree.
-         - Deeds are fruits; words are leaves.
-         - Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.

Determination and struggles:

-        -  Difficulties make you a jewel.
-         - God helps those who help themselves.
-         - Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
-         - A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
-         - Be gracious in defeat.
-         - We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
-         - When one door shuts, another opens.
-         - Cut your coat according to your cloth.
-         - Don’t bite off more than you can chew.
-         - A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
-         - A fault confessed is half redressed.

Tit for tat:

-        -  What goes around, comes around.
-         - What goes up must come down.
-         - What you give is what you get.
-         - What you do to others will bear fruit in you.

Others:

-         - A penny saved is a penny earned.
-         - Blood is thicker than water.
-         - When the moon is full, it begins to wane.
 -  When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Compiled by credence life skills tools
Source: Old paper junk

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