Learn Through Quotations

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

“The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.”

“Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.”

“We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”

“Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”

“Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

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

“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”

“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”

“Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.”

“To fear the worst ofter cures the worse.”

“As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.”

“I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.”

“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”

“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”