Famous Quotations

We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.

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Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to do.

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

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Short is the litle time which remains to thee of life. Live as a mountain

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If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

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He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

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One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

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Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.

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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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Better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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Bodily exercise, when compulsary, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold in the mind.

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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You give but little when you give of your possesions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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