Wise Sayings I

Wise Sayings About Foresight

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the actions you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. ~Alfred A. Montapert

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ~William Hazlitt

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ~James Allen

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. ~Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage

You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. ~Daniel H. Burnham

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca

Wise Sayings About Contentment

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. ~Horace Greeley

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ~Horace

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ~ Aesop

I got hungry. Greed made me blind. ~Ben Maddow

In this world there's room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goosestepped us into misery and bloodshed. ~Charlie Chaplin

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. ~Andreas Capellanus



Wise Sayings About Integrity

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ~The Hitopadesa

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. ~Michel De Montaigne

False words are not only evil in themselves, but hey infect the soul with evil. ~Socrates

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. ~Albert Schweitzer

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking. ~H.L. Mencken

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ~George Bancroft