Quotes about Wisdom
Today is a reader, tomorrow's a leader...
— John Maxwell
it's not over until you've learned from it.
— John Maxwell
The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.
— John Maxwell
Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.
— John Maxwell
The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.
— John Maxwell
Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. To overcome fear and break the cycle, you have to be willing to recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes.
— John Maxwell
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
— John Maxwell
Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.
— John Maxwell
The ability to learn from mistakes has value not just in business but in all aspects of life. If you live to learn, then you will really learn to live.
— John Maxwell
Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone else is to hold our tongue. When tempted to give advice that's not wanted, to show off, to say "I told you so," or to point out another's error, the best policy is to say nothing. As nineteenth-century British journalist George Sala advised, we should strive "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
— John Maxwell
The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.
— John C. Wright
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
— Karl Barth