Daily Quote Archives

“The only medicine for suffering, crime and all the other woes of mankind is wisdom.”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

“It isn't what they say about you; it's what they whisper.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

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

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

“To fly, we have to have resistance.”

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”

“Forget injuries; never forget kindness.”

“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.”

“This capacity to shape a vision of what can be achieved, and to share the vision with others so that it becomes their own, is one of the most important elements of leadership.”

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

“People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.”

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.”

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”