47 Quotes About Being Wiser

Being wiser is something that comes with time. These quotes about being wiser highlight the many lessons we learn through life.

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”

“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.”

“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.”

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them–that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose–somehow we win out.”

“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

“There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles.”

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

“Today is life–the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery–there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”

There are many ways that wisdom is gained in life through the various experiences we live through.