To ask for wise sayings that aren’t cheesy

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The internet is full of inspirational meme quotes that are cheesy, meaningless and shallow. Love laugh life. That thing Marilyn Monroe never said. However, are there are good sayings / quotes / wisdom that you like?

I’ve always liked “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”.

I also like "When you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves" (Confucius)

The management team at work need this, with their relentless performance management of everyone!🙄

don't spend money you don't have, on things you don't need, to impress people you don't like

“Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate”

Renee Jain

This one really helps me at times 🩷

It's not the man in the fight, it's the fight in the man

There’s an old Welsh one I like - Deuparth gwaith ei ddechrau - which means that two thirds of a task is starting it.

Mine are

• if you don't like where you are - move, you are not a tree

And

• the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Another quote by Sir Terry I like is

'Personal isn't the same as important'

Just because it matters to you doesn't mean it matters to others.

Oh my mum says this one! And no one ever knows what it means.
It's the pennies make the pounds isn't it. But how it ended up like that I'll never know. Unless it's a colloquium?

I use 'That was then, this is now' a lot to remind myself not to stress over past mistakes and to make the most of now.

Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.

Also one I think a lot at the moment... 'It is what it is' - meaning I can't change what is happening, only my attitude to it. Used a lot when I am waiting hours for my oncology day case appointment. For some reason everyone gets the same appointment time so sometimes there can be a very long wait to be called in.
Also used to get me through my cancer treatment, which is, quite frankly, awful. However there will be an end to it one way or another so I just need to get through now.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

A lot of really good ones here!

One that I like is

"The best team is the one you have"
(I watched a documentary about cargo ships, it was a captain who said it.)

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

"Your ears will never get you into trouble" - I'm a talker and heard this on a work training course YEARS ago. It's served me very well at times when a bit of space / silence is actually what's needed, rather than me jumping in with a solution / opinion / whatever

The grass is greener where you water it.

From Dr Phil "you wouldn't worry what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did"

For the poster who doesn't know what this means; mickle means little and muckle means big. They're used in parts of northern England and possibly Scotland. Probably very old words. Muckle is still used in Geordie to mean big.

Don’t be upset about the results you didn’t get from the work you didn’t do.

"There's no pockets in a shroud." I've said this only recently about someone I know who is as tight as two coats of paint when it's just meanness not need.

'Don't trip up on something behind you' Seneca the younger. Lots of great Stoic quotes. This one stuck with me as I spent many years drowning in regrets.

I agree with the pp above that Rilke is really comforting and inspiring.

And my cynical favourite 'every corpse on Everest was once a highly motivated person'

“Not my circus not my monkeys” is one of my favourites.

”your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency” is another.

No good deed goes unpunished

Mud thrown is ground lost.