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May you find great value in these Shape quotes and sayings.
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
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Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards
our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself has discernment.
- Lao Tzu
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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