Quotes & Sayings

When an old man dies, it is a whole library which burns.
African proverb

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Anonymous

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Anonymous

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle

Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.
Richard Bach A Gift of Wings

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.
Walter Benjamin

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
William Blake

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

Destiny is not a choice, it is a chance.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
–Robert Brault

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carlson

Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway.
Webb Chiles

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