(61 quotes found)
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake”
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”
