Words: Violet
Sometimes we all need a few words from some of the wisest people to have lived on our planet to get everything into perspective. So sit back, relax and enjoy our 10 Wisest Quotes of all Time…
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
WILL ROGERS
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN,
“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.”
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
“The coward makes himself cowardly. The hero makes himself heroic.”
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
MARTIN LUTHER KING
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
JOHN RUSKIN
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
NELSON MANDELA
“During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all people live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realised. But my lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
DESMOND TUTU
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
ARISTOTLE
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
ByVictoria Gardiner Twitter @vicky_gardiner
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