Daily Quote Archives

“Your time is limited, so don‘t waste it living someone else’s life. Don‘t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don‘t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

“All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”

“Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.”

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“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.”

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

“We live in the world when we love it.”

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“You only lose what you cling to.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”