Daily Quote Archives

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”

“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.”

“You don’t just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.”

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

“The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous...and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn‘t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

“I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

“Sometimes laughter is the only weapon we have.”

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

“Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”

“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“There‘s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.”

“People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.”

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”