Good Thought of the Day in English

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

- Pearl Buck

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away.

-Abraham Lincoln

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

-Kahlil Gibran

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

- George Washington Carver

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

-Susan B. Anthony Quotation

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

- Buddha

I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

-William Faulkner

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

- John Donne *

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

- Joseph L. Mankiewicz Download or Share Images

Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download or Share Images

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

- A Quotation From Fred Astaire Download or Share Images

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

- Voltaire Download or Share Images

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

- Walter Bagehot Download or Share Images

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Download or Share Images

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber Download or Share Images

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy.

- Thornton Wilder Download or Share Images

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

- Ovid Download or Share Images

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand Download or Share Images

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles Schwab Download or Share Images

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

- John C. Maxwell Download or Share Images

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

- Pat Conroy Download or Share Images

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

- Oscar Wilde Download or Share Images

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain Download or Share Images

Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has not time to form.

- Andre Maurois Download or Share Images

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Download or Share Images

There's always a way if you're committed.

- Anthony Robbins Download or Share Images

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

- Oprah Winfrey Download or Share Images

My friend is one who takes me for what I am.

- Henry David Thoreau Download or Share Images

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

- Lord Byron Download or Share Images

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

- Samuel Johnson Download or Share Images

To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero Download or Share Images

To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

- Kahlil Gibran Download or Share Images

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say cannot be done.

- Randy Foutch Download or Share Images

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

- Henry Rollins Download or Share Images

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

- Lewis Carroll Download or Share Images

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

- James Freeman Clarke Download or Share Images

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

- Socrates

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

-William James

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

-Buddha

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.

- Linda Brakeall

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

- William James

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

Dr. David Hawkins

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.

- Erica Jong

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

- Ruth McKenney

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

- Thomas Carlyle

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

- Wayne Dyer

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

- J. Ayer

There is no such thing as a self-made spiritual leader.

- J. Oswald Sanders

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

- George McGovern

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

- Michael Bartel

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

- Anthony Robbins

The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

- Thomas Szasz

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing beats taking that big bite out of life and having it bite back just a bit!

- Skye Thomas

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

- Tommy Lasorda

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.

- Dag Hammarskjold

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

- Lee Iacoca

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

- Helen Keller

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

- Cecil B. DeMille

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

- John Ruskin

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

The future belongs to those who are willing to make short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.

-Fred A. Manske, Sr.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

- Albert Camus

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

- Brian Tracy

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

-Albert Camus

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

- Nido Qubein

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

- Plato

Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost.

- M.H. McKee

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mind-set is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

Lynn Jennings

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. Ben Stein What you resist persists and grows larger.

- Jeanne Bice

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

- Napoleon Hill

There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

- Immanuel Kant

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

- Pearl Bailey

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

- Georges Braque

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

- J. Brotherton

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities organize around them.

Stephen Covey

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.

- Truman Capote

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

- Ben Franklin

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

- Harry Browne

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

- Anthony Robbins

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford *

Human beings can transform themselves. They can grow larger or smaller but they grow every day.

- Walter Anderson

The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

- Hugh Prather

Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement.

- Greg Werner

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

- Douglas MacArthur

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are reaching for exist within us, waiting to illumine a deeper insight and greater awareness, to shine into our lives, our environment, and into the lives of others. Each of us has purpose and a mission that only we can fulfil right where we are.

- Gail Pursell Elliott

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

- C. S. Lewis

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

- Swami Sivananda

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

- Andre Maurois

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

- P. J. O'Rourke

In the majority of sane human lives there is no problem of sex at all; there is no problem of marriage at all; there is no problem of temperament at all; for all these problems are dwarfed and rendered ridiculous by the standing problem of being a moderately honest man and paying the butcher.

- G. K. Chesterton