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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It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
— 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 upward into the night.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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