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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.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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.

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

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

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

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

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

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

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

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

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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 has never made a bigot, but learning has.

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

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

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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