Daily Quote Archives

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”

“Always do more than is required of you.”

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.”

“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

“It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.”

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.”

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”

“Believe in yourself, never give up and go about your business with passion drive and enthusiasm.”