Inspirational Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Learn to labour and to wait.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the language spoken by angels.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A boy's will is the wind's will.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every human heart is human.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing with God can be accidental.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How like they are to human things!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perseverance is a great element of success.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man has his secret sorrows...

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us then, be up and doing.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow