Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Quotations

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.