Daily Quote Archives

“Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains.”

“I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

“The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.”

“That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

“Without dew and light, flowers fade. Charity and love are the dew and light of the human heart.”

“What I’m advocating is that the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from
the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of
corporations and of the politicians. I think there’s a responsibility within the media to help… you could create a paradigm of a media organization that is geared towards 'No bullshit.'

And do it actively. And stop pretending that we don’t know what’s going on.”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.”

“You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.”

“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.”

“Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.”

“Far away 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 where they lead.”

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.”

“Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.”

“It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.”

“I expect to pass through life but once. If
therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do
to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as
I shall not pass this way again.”