“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1859
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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake · "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1793
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
Lemony Snicket · "The Blank Book", 1999
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.”
Vincent van Gogh · Letter to Theo van Gogh, 1885
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, January 1852
“St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.”
Traditional English Proverb · July 15 folk saying, documented widely before 1800
“A kind word is like a spring day.”
Russian Proverb
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Jeannette Walls · The Glass Castle, 2005
“You can't control what people think of you. You can only control your effort and your attitude.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA press conference, 2023
“Winning two national championships taught me that the team always comes first.”
Jalen Brunson · Post-Villanova interview, 2018
“I learned so much from Coach Wright. The way he built culture, the way he taught us to play for each other.”
Jalen Brunson · Interview referencing Villanova, 2022
“I don't think about the outside noise. I know who I am and what I'm capable of.”
Jalen Brunson · ESPN interview, 2023
“Money is just a tool. The real asset is the team that knows how to use it.”
Ashneer Grover · Doglapan, 2023
“You don't build a unicorn by being polite. You build it by being right.”
Ashneer Grover · Shark Tank India, Season 1
“Entrepreneurship is not about having a great idea. It is about executing that idea better than everyone else.”
Ashneer Grover · Shark Tank India, Season 1
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein · widely attributed to Einstein
