Daily Quote Archives

“A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people, must give it this soul.”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”

“Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.”

“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.”

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”

“I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture, I'd buy a painting. ”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“Ambition is not what man does, but what man would do.”

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

“What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it — as if the cause depends on you, because it does.”

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”

“An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.”

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

“One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.”

“It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.”

“You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”