Quotes

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Put away anger from the heart and do not show resentment; do not be angered when others act differently.

Harmony is to be valued and quarrels avoided.

I am not necessarily a saint, nor is another necessarily a fool; we are both merely ordinary people.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it. Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see ho…

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Down deep we all hug something. The great forest hugs its silence. The sea and the air hug the spilled cries of sea-birds. The forest hugs only silence; its …

Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways. This is what positive politics can do.

One people, one breath, one mind, one heart.

Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done …

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.

I will drink life to the lees.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.