W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wise judges are we of each other!”
“Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.”
“Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.”
“Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.”
Source: Complete Works
“Wise leaders create opportunities for their followers to learn and lead.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Wise leaders do not just make promises. They strive to keep their promises because it is impossible to win the hearts of the people with empty words.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”
“Wise leaders heed lessons from great people and share those lessons with others.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Wise leaders know that being personable ad friendly is the highly-prized personality for employees who are meeting, greeting, and engaging on the front lines with customers. They are the real ambassadors of good will who make positive first impressions for the organization. Their affinity for being personable and friendly can boost the attractor factor for winning business, loyalty, and rave reviews.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.”
“Wise leaders know that serving the best interests of all will lead to a healthy and prosperous society. That's why they work to bring people together, not tear them apart, to serve the common good.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“Wise leaders learn from their critics and rise above any criticism.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Wise leaders learn how to lead and teach others how to do so, because they know that leadership is a lifelong learning process.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Wise leaders never stop learning. They learn every day, every time and everywhere.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Wise leaders share their knowledge and acknowledge what they do not know, so they can also learn and grow.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.”
“Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.”
“Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Wise man also fears a weak enemy.”
“Wise man and river; they both create new paths!”
“Wise man doesn't need to be praised like one.
It can reduce the guts of him to be a better man.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!”
“Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!”
“Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake!”
“Wise man. Kids from the moment they’re born, they fill your heart with love…and terror. Especially little girls. You want to protect them from everything. And they you can’t, you feel like you’ve failed as a father. You’ve saved yourself a lot of pain by not having children.”
Source: The Chalk Man
“Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.”
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days.
“Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.”
“Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.”
“Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)
“Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.”
“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”
Source: Killosophy
“Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Wise men change, fools stay the same.”
“Wise men don't feel companionless when they are not in the company of their egos.”
“Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.”
“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”
“Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki”
“Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.”
“Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.”
Source: THE DREAMLANDS SERIES: 20+ Gruesome Tales of Terror in One Premium Edition: The Dream Cycle: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, From Beyond, The Nameless City, Ex Oblivione, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Polaris, Hypnosäó_
“Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.”
Source: The Essays of Michael de Montaigne
“Wise men hear and see as little children do.”
“Wise men know their internal reputation is more important than their external reputation.”
“Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.”
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
“Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.”
“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.”
Source: Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs
“Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.”
“Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare