Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Related Quotes:

" Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" All things come round to him who will but wait. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Music is the universal language of mankind. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow