Daily Quote Archives

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”

“Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

“I‘ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing.”

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

“There is no such thing as ‘on the way out’ as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you’re in the business because you’re breathing.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

“If you‘re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.”

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”

“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”

“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.”