wisdom-quote

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn__ be able to make even a single drop of honey.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.

The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish.

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.