Wisdom Quotes
- Segun Laniyan
- Jun 18, 2015
- 3 min read

WISDOM QUOTE
Get Intelligence because she would bring you success but pursue Wisdom for she would secure you a future
Disagree with your wife when you feel she's in the wrong but love and respect her for in her lies your fulfilment
Do not withhold the rod from you child when the need arises but love and respect them for they are your passport to the future
Silver and gold is good for it would afford you material things but a good name is better for it would afford you things that silver and gold can't
Honour your parents and keep in touch with them
knowing that one day you would expect the same from your children
Be opened to different opinions to build relationship
but be fully grounded in your own beliefs so you would avoid being tossed hither tether
Working hard would get you far in life but working smart would get you there on time
It's not how well you hit
but how well you can take a hit and keep moving
Don't wait to feel like doing the right thing before you do it do the right thing and the feeling would follow
It's not what you leave for your kids that matters but what you leave in them
The higher you go the more acknowledgement you get
but know this....it gets lonely up there!
Without commitment you can never start but without consistency you can never finish
Friends come and go
only a few stick closer than a brother
"I am free!"...he says...."I can do anything I want Little does he know that true freedom comes when you choose to hold back for the greater good
Movement isn't Progress
the former is a to and fro motion while the latter is a transcending motion
To dream is good
but dreaming without setting goals becomes a fantasy
There are two set of people in the world
one that go up to the top and one the grows up to the top
The quality of your Life isn't determined by duration but by donation
Focus on your position in heaven and your condition on earth
would conform
Do not waste your emotions in the pool of Jealousy
the truth is no matter how high you get there would always be someone higher
The race of life is far...run it with good faith
but remember...at the end of the day the race is with yourself
Don't seek to be known
Seek to know and you would be known
Tell me what you know and I would consider
but tell me what you believe and I would change
We are all created for one purpose...to show forth the Glory of God the question is are you fulfilling that purpose
Emotions are good...it helps you connect with someone but make sure it's not in the driving seat especially when you'r making a major decision
Perfection is Key
how you are perceived would determine how you would be received
A man quickly achieved greatness
only to have it all snatched away because it was built on a flaw character
Show me you are Perfect then I have already seen your flaws but show me you are Authentic then I have seen your perfection
Having resources would only get you so far
but being resourceful would always give you results
Most of the time we pray for an Oak Tree God gives us an Acorn it only takes the eye of wisdom to see that the potential of an Oak Tree is in an Acorn
Failure isn't defined by the amount of times you fail
but is defined by the choice you make when you fail...either to give up or keep going!