Daily Quote Archives

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”

“I‘ve never been cool - and I don’t care.”

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong.’”

“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

“There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

“Give whatever you are doing and give whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”

“You can turn off the sun, but I’m still gonna shine.”

“Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.”

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.”

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”

“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”