Daily Quote Archives

“We live in the world when we love it.”

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“You only lose what you cling to.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

“You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope one day you’ll join us
And the world will live as one.”

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”

“Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.”

“He who hesitates is poor.”

“Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy’d the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...”

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.”

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.”

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”

“Nothing else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.”

“It‘s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars; every place is the center of the world. Stand in your own dooryard, and you have eight thousand miles of solid ground beneath you and all the sidereal splendors overhead.”

“It is what you read when you don‘t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

“In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away”

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”