Daily Quote Archives

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

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

“Character is power.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.”

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”

“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”

“Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.”

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”

“Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.”

“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”

“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”

“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”