Intelligent Quotes

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. It be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, them it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.”

“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.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land.”

“But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.”

“For those who live with God there is no last meeting.”

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my bookfriends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their large loves and heavenly charities.”

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”

“Tears can only be cured by vision.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“"Tomorrow!" What possibilities there are in that word.”

“I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.”

“Let us not weep for those who have gone away when their lives were at full bloom and beauty. Who are we that we should mourn them and wish them back? Life at its every stage is good, but who shall say whether those who die in the splendor of their prime are not fortunate to have known no abatement, no dulling of the flame by ash, no slow fading of life’s perfect flower.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”