“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Topic
american
35 quotes
Voices on american
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
More on american
“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.”
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”
“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.”
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
“If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.”
“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“I start where the last man left off.”
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”
“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”