Text Quotes Collection

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do”. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. - Alexander Chase

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. - Yogi Berra

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. - B. R. Haydon

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau

If there is no wind, row. - Latin Proverb

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright

Never say more than is necessary. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Ghandi

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right. - Martin Luther

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. - Firdtjof Nansen

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. - Helen Keller

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. - Johnette Napolitano

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. - Heraclitus

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. - Richard Cech

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Men do less than they ought,unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. - Jules Renard

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. - Henry D. Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. - Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery