924 quotes found
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”
“Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done w...”
“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”
“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall hav...”
“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.”
“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
“He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; ...”
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else belie...”
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on ter...”
“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”
“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the re...”
“In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactl...”
