70 Wisdom Quotes on Life, Purpose, and Career

These are 70 Wisdom Quotes I read and I felt I should share them with you guys.

1. Begin now to be what you will be hereafter. – Saint Jerome

2. We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility. – Albert Einstein

3. Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. – Dan Brown

4. The brain is wider than the sky. – Emily Dickinson

5. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

6. If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. – Toni Morrison

7. Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the f*ck you were doing to do anyway. – Robert Downey Jr

8. Individuals search for truth, and groups search for consensus. – Naval Ravikant

9. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – W.B. Yeats

10. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare

11. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

12. Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best. – John C. Maxwell

13. Great things never came from comfort zones. – Neil Strauss

14. When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. – Joe Namath

15. If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done. – Thomas Jefferson

16. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. – Ernest Hemingway

17. Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weakness. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness. – Robert Greene

18. You are the person you have been waiting for. – Joe Dispenza

19. Extreme people get extreme results. – Sam Altman

20. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne

21. The easiest way to change the world is to change yourself. – Maxime Lagace

22. Take your time, play the long game, embrace the boring, the difficulties, the uncomfortable. This is how it will happen. – Maxime Lagace

23. Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. – Jack Kerouac

24. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. – Horace

25. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

26. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

27. From error to error one discovers the entire truth. – Sigmund Freud

28. In a gentle way, you can shake the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

29. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

30. Ever tried? Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett

31. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Allen

32. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller

33. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. – Steve Jobs

34. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. – Jesus Christ

35. A Ship is always safe ashore but that is not what it’s built for. Albert Einstein

36. Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. – Les Brown

37. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

38. When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. – Jim Rohn

39. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. – Laurence J. Peter

40. If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

41. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

42. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

43. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

44. In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. – Miguel de Cervantes

45. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -George Benard Shaw

46. You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr

47. All for and one for all. – Alexandre Dumas

48. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle. I love this. It stands out to me. Let me know the one that stands out for you.

49.  Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

50. Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. – Henry Ford

51. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. – Henry David Thoreau

52. You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really do. – Jim Rohn

53. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche

54. He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

55. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

56. You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough. Naval Ravikant

57. If you can imagine it, we can make it. – John Dykstra

58. You change the world by being yourself. – Yoko Ono

59. The only way round is through. – Robert Frost

60. Seek life, not comfort. – Maxime Lagace

61. We are our choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre

62. A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot. – Joe Vitale

63. Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. – Napoleon Hill

64. One day or day one. You decide. Unknown

65. I didn’t come this far to only come this far. – Unknown

66. They can because they think they can. – Virgil

67. And your very flesh shall be a great poem. – Walt Whitman

68. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. – Miguel de Cervantes

69. Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life starts to change. – Unknown

70. Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. – H. Jackson Brown Jr