Daily Quote Archives

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.”

“A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people, must give it this soul.”

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”

“Personal service when it merges into universal service is the only service worth doing.”

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.”

“I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man‘s need, but not every man’s greed.”

“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.”

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”