The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Growth Quotes, Motivating Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Progress Quotes

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a...

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a...

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned...

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned...

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...