Daily Quote Archives

“Be kind to unkind people — they need it the most.”

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”

“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.”

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”

“Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.”

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”

“Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”

“I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

“It‘s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before”

“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others”

“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.”

“It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”

“Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.”

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”