Quotes to inspire and reflect

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

Open your eyes and look within.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

The proper function of man is to live - not to exist.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. William J.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. G. F.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends, they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

You are in the process of being indoctrinated.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh...

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus, they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.