Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Browse 7 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward into the night.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

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