Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. "

Related Quotes:

" Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. "

" It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. "

" Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. "

" We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. "

" Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. "

" Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. "

" Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. "

" Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. "

" Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. "

" Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. "

" Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. "

" The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. "

" Live your life and forget your age. "

" Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. "

" Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. "

" You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. "

" Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. "

" The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. "

" Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. "

" The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. "

" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "

" The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven. "

" There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. "

" The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. "