Daily Quote Archives

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”

“Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.”

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

“Let the beauty we love become the good we do.”

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

“The best thing you’ve ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it’s only life after all.”

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

“Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.”

“Don‘t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”

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

“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.”

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.”