Daily Quote Archives

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

“If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.”

“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'”

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

“Our real discoveries come from chaos; from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”

“Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.”

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.”

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

“Life is a promise; fulfill it.”

“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”

“Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools. Wisdom cannot be passed from one having it to another not having it. Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.”

“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.”

“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”