Inspirational Quotations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- If you would hit the mark,
you must aim a little above it;
every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
- The heights by great men reached and kept,
were not attained by sudden flight;
But they while their companions slept,
were toiling upwards in the night.
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- We see but dimly through the mists and vapors;
Amid these earthly damps
What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find
in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- If spring came but once a century instead of once a year,
or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence,
what wonder and expectation there would
be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
- Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
to some good angel leave the rest;
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
there are no birds in last year's nest.