Daily Quote Archives

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”

“Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.”

“No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.”

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”

“If you want to work for world peace, go home and love your families.”

“Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

“True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.”

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”

“Those at the center can imagine what it is to be outside. The strong can imagine what it is to be weak. Illuminated lives can imagine the dark. Poets in their twilight can imagine the borders of stellar fire. We strangers can imagine the familiar hearts of strangers.”

“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”

“We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.”

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”

“Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.”

“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.”

“The 7 Deadly Sins are: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Business without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principle.”

“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”

“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”

“These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.”