I like lots of English Quotes but here are some of my favorites: Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. By Carl Schurz. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. By Helen Keller When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. By Alexander Graham Bell