Daily Quote Archives

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”

“There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.”

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.”

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.”

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”

“Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.”

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

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

“If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.”

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

“Success means having the courage, the determination and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

“To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”

“Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence; a time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny; and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”