Inspirational Quotations by Victor Hugo

  • Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
    From Issue 38
  • There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world,
    and that is an idea whose time has come.
    From Issue 69
  • A HOUSE is built of logs and stone,
    Of piles and post and piers;
    A HOME is built of loving deeds,
    That stand a thousand years.
    From Issue 90
  • The delight we inspire in others,
    has this enchanting peculiarity.
    That, unlike any other reflection,
    returns to us more radiant than ever.
    From Issue 240
  • As the purpose is emptied the heart is filled.
    From Issue 271
  • The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity.
    That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever.
    From Issue 288
  • The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That,
    unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever.
    From Issue 294
  • Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
    From Issue 379
  • Which of our methods of measuring could we apply to this eddying mass that is the universe? In the presence of the profundities our sole ability is to dream. Our conception, quickly winded, cannot follow creation, that vast breath.
    From Issue 384
  • To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
    From Issue 385
  • Be like the bird, who, feeling the branch break beneath him sings, knowing that he has wings.
    From Issue 389
  • There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
    From Issue 393
  • Toleration is the best religion.
    From Issue 398
  • Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
    From Issue 401
  • Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
    From Issue 418
  • Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
    From Issue 418

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