Quotes and Poems for Life

“We all have a few failures under our belt. It’s what makes us ready for the successes.”

“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future – are, more often than not, unconsidered.”

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.”

“The toughest question has always been, “How do you get your ideas?” How do you answer that? It’s like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!”

“We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations […]

“It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.”