Daily Quote Archives

“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.”

“We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

“In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”

“Increasingly, the profession seems overwhelmed by the sheer size of the media, by hidebound habits, by infotainment, by the quest for sensation and gossip, by the imperatives of the stock market or by a pursuit of ever-fragmenting audiences that lead us ever-farther from home.”

“The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.”

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

“In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.”

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”

“Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in
economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests.”

“Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.”

“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.”

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.”

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”

“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally,who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”

“Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.”

“Author and columnist Richard Reeves characterized the current state of journalism in this quote: 'Were it a person, journalism would be diagnosed as depressed.'”

“If you haven't got charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”

“In the time of my confession,
in the hour of my deepest need,
when the pool of tears beneath my feet
floods every newborn seed,
there's a dyin' voice within me
reaching out somewhere,
toiling in the danger
and in the morals of despair.

Don't have the inclination
to look back on any mistake.
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events
that I must break.
In the fury of the moment
I can see the Master's hand
in every leaf that trembles,
in every grain of sand.”