Daily Quote Archives

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”

“If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.”

“Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.”

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.”

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”

“War doesn't determine who is right - only who is left.”

“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.”

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

“Great crises produce great men and great deeds of courage.”

“Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.”

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

“Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”

“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

“There are two kinds of people — those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”