Echoes

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Well done is better than well said.

Be thou never without something to do; be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or doing something that is useful to the community.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, compassionate.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Deeds, not words.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.