Mike Wallace

Broadcast Journalist American 1918 – 2012

60 Minutes pioneer known for hard-hitting interviews.

387 quotes

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
Knowledge
"Your greatest is yet to come."
Inspiration
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Happiness
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Wisdom
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
Love
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Leadership
"The best revenge is massive success."
Success
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
Work
"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
Perseverance
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Adventure
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
Wisdom
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Motivation
"The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
Philosophy
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Happiness
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Motivation
"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."
Fear
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
Gratitude
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Perseverance
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right."
"Ask and it shall be given to you."
Faith
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"The only thing constant in life is change."
Change
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
Courage
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
Success
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
"The best time to be happy is now."
Happiness
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
Wisdom