Quotes to inspire and reflect

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it righ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. Dr.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

My business is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Life itself is a quotation.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

Americans are overreaches; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. George F.

You may delay, but time will not.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.