Please choose an author
Abraham Lincoln
Aeschylus
Albert Pike
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Smith
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred Tennyson
Amelia Barr
Amelia Earhart
André Gide
Anna Frank
Anonymus
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Archibald Alexander Hodge
Aristotle
Arthur Balfour
Arthur Schopenhauer
Auguste Rodin
Babe Ruth
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Blaise Pascal
Bodhidharma
Booker T. Washington
Carolus Linnaeus
Cesare Pavese
Charles Buxton
Charles Spurgeon
Charles W. Chesnutt
Confucius
Damon Runyon
David Douglas
David Livingstone
David Lloyd George
Dwight Lyman Moody
Edith Wharton
Edmund Burke
Edward G. Bulwer
Elbert Hubbard
Emma Goldman
Francis Bacon
Francois Rabelais
Frank A. Clark
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Fyodor Dostoevsky
George Bernard Shaw
George Byron
George Eliot
George Macauley Trevelyan
George Moore
George Orwell
George Smith Patton
Gerard De Nerval
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gustave Flaubert
Harvey Samuel Firestone
Hazrat Inajat Khan
Helen Hunt Jackson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Ford
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heraclitus
Hippocrates
Horace
Hosea Ballou
Imam Ali
Ivan Turgenev
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar
James Allen
James Douglas
James G. Bennet
James J. Corbett
James Macintosh
James Matthew Barrie
James Russel Lowell
Janos Arany
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Moliere
Jerome K. Jerome
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Barrymore
John Keats
John Keble
John Locke
John Muir
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Hall
Joseph Joubert
Josh Billings
Joyce Kilmer
Jules Verne
Julius Charles Hare
Kahlil Gibran
King Solomon
Lao Tzu
Leo Tolstoy
Leonardo Da Vinci
Louis Pasteur
Lucy Larcom
Mahatma Gandhi
Maori proverb
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marie Curie
Mark Twain
Matthew Brady
Matthew Prior
Max Beckmann
Minnie Aumonier
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nellie Bly
Nelson Henderson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Omar Khayyam
Paul Gauguin
Publius Vergilius Maro
Rabindranath Tagore
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Browning
Rudyard Kipling
Ryunosuke Satoro
Saint Augustine
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seneca
Socrates
Sören Aabye Kierkegaard
St. Francis of Assisi
Sun Tzu
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Dewar
Thomas Jefferson
Victor Hugo
Vincent Van Gogh
Walter Bagehot
Willa Cather
William James
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Shakespeare
Zen proverb
Author
”A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
”Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
”Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
”Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
”Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
”Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
”Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
”Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”
”Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
”Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
”Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
”I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
”I believe that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.”
”I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
”I laugh because I must not cry, that is all.”
”I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
”I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
”In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
”It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
”My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
”My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
”Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
”People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
”Teach the children so it won’t be necessary to teach the adults.”
”That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
”The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
”The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
”The man who can’t make a mistake can’t make anything.”
”Whatever you are, be a good one.”
”You can lose everything in life, but not dreams.”
”You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
”From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
”Man’s real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books.”
”We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
”What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains immortal.”
”Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
”A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.”
”Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.”
”Without adventure civilization is in full decay.”
”I am a part of all that I have met.”
”That which we are, we are.”
”It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”
”The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
”A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
”Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
”Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
”Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.”
”Dare to be yourself!”
”It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
”Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
”Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
”The colour of truth is gray.”
”Understand that the only possession of any value is life.”
”Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”
”A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
”How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
”I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
”I think a lot, but I don’t say much.”
”I wish to go on living even after my death.”
”In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
”In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
”Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
”No one has ever become poor by giving.”
”Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
”Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.”
”Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
”Just stick with it. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm up.”
”The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”
”Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
”A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
”All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
”But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
”But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”
”I am who I am and I have the need to be.”
”If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.”
”It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
”It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
”Only the children know what they are looking for.”
”Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
”Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
”The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
”The only things you learn are the things you tame.”
”The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.”
”The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.”
”True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
”What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
”What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
”When someone blushes, doesn’t that mean ‘yes’?”
”Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
”You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
”It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.”
”No man can ever raise above that which he aims.”
”All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
”Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
”Happiness is a state of activity.”
”He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
”Hope is a waking dream.”
”It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
”It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
”Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
”Nature does nothing uselessly.”
”No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
”Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
”The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
”The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
”The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
”The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
”The secret to humor is surprise.”
”What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
”Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.”
”Wit is educated insolence.”
”Enthusiasm moves the world.”
”...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.”
”A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.”
”After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
”Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
”Compassion is the basis of morality.”
”Each day is a little life.”
”Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
”Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.”
”It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
”Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.”
”Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
”One can create what he wants, but does not want what he wants.”
”One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
”Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
”Truth is most beautiful undraped.”
”We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
”We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
”Beauty is everywhere.” It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.”
”Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
”Patience is also a form of action.”
”Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
”Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
”Adventures are to the adventurous.”
”Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
”Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
”I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
”Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
”Never complain and never explain.”
”Silence is the mother of truth.”
”Success is the child of audacity.”
”The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
”The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
”To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
”Travel teaches toleration.”
”Without tact you can learn nothing.”
”An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
”Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
”By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
”Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
”Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
”Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
”He that can have patience can have what he will.”
”He who gains time gains everything.”
”I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted.”
”I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
”In politics, nothing is contemptible.”
”Life is too short to be little.”
”Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
”Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
”One today is worth two tomorrows.”
”Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
”The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
”The expected always happens.”
”Well done is better than well said.”
”When I want to read a good book, I write one.”
”When in doubt, don’t.”
”When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”
”Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.”
”Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
”You may delay, but time will not.”
”Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”
”All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
”In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
”It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
”Kind words don’t cost much.” Yet they accomplish much.”
”Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
”The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
”All know the way, but few actually walk it.”
”A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”
”Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
”Character is power.”
”Character, not circumstance, makes the person.”
”Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
”Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
”If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
”Success always leaves footprints.”
”Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
”We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”
”You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”
”If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
”We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
”You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
”It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
”There is time enough, but none to spare.”
”It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
”Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
”You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.”
”A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.”
”I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.”
”Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
”Character is what you are in the dark.”
”If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
”Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
”There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
”To know when to be generous and when firm - that is wisdom.”
”You can never plan the future by the past.”
”Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
”Punctuality is a virtue, if you don’t mind being lonely.”
”To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that wich says: Leave no stone unturned.”
”A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”
”Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
”Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
”Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
”He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
”It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”
”Live truth instead of professing it.”
”Men are only as great as they are kind.”
”Men are punished by their sins, not for them.”
”One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
”Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
”The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
”The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
”The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
”The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
”The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
”There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
”To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
”True life lies in laughter, love and work.”
”We work to become, not to acquire.”
”I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
”A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
”Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
”In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
”Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
”The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
”Wonder is the seed of knowledge.”
”Everything comes in time for those who can wait.”
”If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
”A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
”Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.”
”Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
”It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”
”Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
”Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.”
”Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
”The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
”We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
”When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
”Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.”
”Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?
”Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”
”Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
”I feel an army in my fist.”
”Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
”Live with your century, but do not be its creature.”
”Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
”The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.”
”The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
”The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”
”To save all we must risk all.”
”When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
”All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
”And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
”Become who you are!
”Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
”Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
”He, who has a why to live, can bear almost any how.”
”I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
”I have learned to walk: since then I have run.”
”If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
”I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
”Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
”It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.”
”That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.”
”The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
”The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”
”There are no facts, only interpretations.”
”They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
”To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
”Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
”We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
”Without music, life would be a mistake.”
”You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
”A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.”
”Beauty will save the world.”
”But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
”If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
”It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
”Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
”The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
”The soul is healed by being with children.”
”This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
”A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
”Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.”
”I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
”If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
”My reputation grows with every failure.”
”Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
”Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
”Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
”You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
”You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
”Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
”The power of thought is the magic of the mind.”
”To have joy, one must share it.”
”Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
”It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
”After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.”
”I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.”
”A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
”A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”
”Reality can destroy the dream. Why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?"
”Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
”In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
”Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
”Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
”Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
”Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
”There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
”Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
”Yout get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.”
”Reason is the illusion of reality.”
”Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.”
”When time is spent, eternity begins.”
”An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
”Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.”
”Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
”Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
”Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
”I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”
”I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”
”It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”
”It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”
”It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
”Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
”Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
”Men have become the tools of their tools.”
”Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
”Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
”The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.”
”The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
”Things do not change; we change.”
”We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
”What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
”Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”
”Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
”Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
”Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
”If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
”Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
”There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
”Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
”To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”
”Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
”When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
”Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re right.”
”You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
”Genius is talent set on fire by courage.”
”Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.”
”Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.”
”Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.”
”The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”
”There is nothing permanent except for change.”
”You cannot step into the same river twice.”
”If you are not ready to change your life no one can help you.”
”Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”
”Walking is man’s best medicine.”
”Dare to think.”
”He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”
”Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
”Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
”If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
”Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
”Life is a bridge.” Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
”You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
”I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.”
”I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.”
”You become a champion by fighting one more round.”
”It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.”
”Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
”Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
”Make your feet your friend.”
”The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
”The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
”Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
”A wise man travels to discover himself.”
”Fate loves the fearless.”
”In dreams and love nothing is impossible.”
”I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
”Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
”Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
”People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
”The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
”What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
”It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
”Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
”Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.”
”A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
”All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”
”As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
”Doubt can only be removed by action.”
”Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
”Everything is hard before it is easy.”
”Few people have the imagination for reality.”
”If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.”
”If you don’t feel it, you’ll never get it.”
”Nothing is worth more than this day.”
”Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
”Remember to live.”
”There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.”
”To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
”We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.”
”Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
”You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
”Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
”The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
”Peace is the first thing the angels sang.”
”The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
”Going to the woods is going home.”
”In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
”The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
”The mountains are calling and I must go.”
”May you live all the days of your life.”
”Perfection is the child of time.”
”A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
”Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?”
”Children always want to look behind mirrors.”
”Children need models rather than critics.”
”Close your eyes and see.”
”He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
”Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
”Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
”Never cut what you can untie.”
”Space is to place as eternity is to time.”
”The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”
”To teach is to learn twice.”
”A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
”Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”
”Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.”
”Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
”I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”
”Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!”
”Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
”How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
”The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.”
”Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
”In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.”
”All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.”
”A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
”A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
”Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
”If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
”The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
”Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
”To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
”Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
”If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
”In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
”Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
”The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
”A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
”All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
”God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
”He who thinks little errs much.”
”I love those who can smile in trouble.”
”It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
”Nature never breaks her own laws.”
”Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
”Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
”Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.”
”Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
”The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
”The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
”Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
”Water is the driving force in nature.”
”While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
”Chance favors the prepared mind.”
”He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”
”An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
”Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
”Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
”Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
”God has no religion.”
”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
”I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
”I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
”In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
”It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”
”Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
”Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
”Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”
”Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
”The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
”The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
”The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
”The future depends on what you do today.”
”The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
”The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
”The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
”There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
”There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.”
”They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
”To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
”Truth is one, paths are many.”
”What barrier is there that love cannot break?
”Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
”Where there is love there is life.”
”Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
”Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
”Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
”If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
”The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
”The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
”The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
”Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
”Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be.” Be one.”
”What we do now echoes in eternity.”
”You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
”Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
”Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
”I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”
”Nothing in life is to be feared.” It is only to be understood.”
”Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
”One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
”We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again.”
”You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.”
”A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
”Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
”Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
”Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
”I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
”I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
”If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
”Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
”Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
”Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
”Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
”The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
”The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
”The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
”The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
”Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
”Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
”Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
”You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
”A spirit in my feet said go, and I went.”
”Hope is but the dreams of those who wake.”
”I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.”
”There is always music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.”
”Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
”Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
”He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
”History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
”History is written by the winners.”
”If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
”Imagination governs the world.”
”Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
”Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
”Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
”Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
”Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
”We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
”Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
”A stick beats more ugliness into a person than it ever beats out.”
”Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
”I said I could and I would. And I did.”
”If you want to do it, you can do it.” The question is, do you want to do it?”
”The turned-down pages of my life were turned up, and the past was present.”
”While I live I hope.”
”The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
”The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
”The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”
”Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
”I shut my eyes in order to see.”
”They succeed, because they think they can.”
”Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
”You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
”Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
”All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
”Always do what you are afraid to do.”
”An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
”As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
”Children are all foreigners.”
”Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
”Earth laughs in flowers.”
”Every wall is a door.”
”Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
”For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
”He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
”I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
”I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.”
”I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.”
”It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
”It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
”Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
”Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
”Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
”Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
”Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
”Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
”Our best thoughts come from others.”
”Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
”People only see what they are prepared to see.”
”Reality is a sliding door.”
”The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
”The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
”There is always safety in valor.”
”This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
”To be great is to be misunderstood.”
”To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
”Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
”We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
”We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
”When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body.”
”With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
”Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
”My sun sets to rise again.”
”Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.”
”Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
”The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
”Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
”I don’t consider myself bald, I’m just taller than my hair.”
”Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”
”What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it’s supposed to be.”
”Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
”A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”
”All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
”For it is in giving that we receive.”
”Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
”Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
”The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
”Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
”Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
”It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
”Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
”Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
”Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
”Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
”When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”
”With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
”Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
”I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
”I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.”
”If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
”The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
”There is no substitute for hard work.”
”We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
”When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven’t.”
”Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”
”Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
”If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”
”I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
”Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
”Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
”Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
”Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
”Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
”People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
”There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
”I never get tired of the blue sky.”
”I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
”If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
”Only when I fall do I get up again.”
”What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
”Life is a school of probability.”
”The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
”Success is never so interesting as struggle.”
”Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
”Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
”Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
”Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
”Belief creates the actual fact.”
”Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
”The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
”Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
”It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
”Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
”There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
”We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
”If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
”You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day — unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.”
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