Daily Quotes And Sayings – Thoughts For Every Day
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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
– Maya Angelou
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
– Maya Angelou
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
“It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
– Moliere
“Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”
– Mortimer Adler
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.”
– Nancy Astor
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.”
– Norman Ford
“Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.”
– Ovid
“A man who is ‘of sound mind‘ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.”
– Paul Valery
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”
– Pericles
“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”
– Plato
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
– Plato
“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr
“Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.”
– Renata Adler
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
“In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll
“We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.”
– Ronald Reagan
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
– Samuel Butler
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
– Samuel Butler
“A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.”
– Samuel Grafton
“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
– Samuel Johnson
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
– Sigmund Freud
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
– Sir James Barrie
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
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