Vintage

Quotes are so inspiring to me. Food for thought, to mull over in our day, or to reference when times are hard, or confusing. Quotes are succinct ideas and thoughts penned by people we respect in history. Here are a few of my favourites. I will always add new quotes to this list, but this is a good start....
 

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
 - Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)
 

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)
 

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)
 

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)
 

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)

 
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)
 

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)
 

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
 

 If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
 

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
- Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965)
 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965)
 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Sir Winston Churchill, a conference in Washington DC, British politician (1874 - 1965)
 

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Cicero, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
 

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
 

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
- Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
 

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
- Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
 

While there's life, there's hope.
- Cicero, Ad Atticum, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
- Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 - 1870)
 

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
 

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
 

Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
 

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
 

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
 

God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
 

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
 

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
 

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
- Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)
 

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)
 

When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.
- Euripides, Temenidae, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)
 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, US poet (1874 - 1963)
 

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)
 

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)
 

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)
 

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.
- Helen Keller, US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
 

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller, US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
 

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
 

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
 

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
 

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)
 

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
 

He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

 
To be worn out is to be renewed.
- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)