Life Lessons

“Well begun is half done.”

“A stitch in time saves nine.”

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and saw that life was duty.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”