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Motivational Witty Quotes

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Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

Related topics: Wisdom

A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson


 

At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin

The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho

A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

Life is a choice.
- Anonymous

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington

Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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