Top 40 Tom Althouse Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.”

— Tom Althouse

2. “What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.”

— Tom Althouse

3. “Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.”

— Tom Althouse

4. “If you are feeling low, or trampled, unappreciated, or forgotten... and you are reading this, realize it is an illusion... the hope is real... you are valued... and what lies ahead... is brilliance.”

— Tom Althouse

5. “I believe great things are ahead for each of us. Now we just have to go ahead and create them.”

— Tom Althouse

6. “When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.”

— Tom Althouse

7. “If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.”

— Tom Althouse

8. “Let us go forth and unconquer the world!”

— Tom Althouse

9. “Embrace what is, steer toward what may yet be.”

— Tom Althouse

10. “When diplomacy fails, whisper through Art and your message will echo for eternity.”

— Tom Althouse

11. “When fear no longer takes hold, the possibilities are endless.”

— Tom Althouse

12. “You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with, and we will not be able to imagine the loss of but one.”

— Tom Althouse

13. “Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.”

— Tom Althouse

14. “The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved.”

— Tom Althouse

15. “There are some who do not have the ability to hide. For our hearts will not fit under a rock.”

— Tom Althouse

16. “It is not my place to judge any person’s beliefs, but choose rather to celebrate their ability to believe.”

— Tom Althouse

17. “Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.”

— Tom Althouse

18. “These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.”

— Tom Althouse

19. “My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.”

— Tom Althouse

20. “To create mass discord, make the people believe there is great prestige for being the first to speak an idea.”

— Tom Althouse

21. “Sometimes it’s, run don’t walk! Like when you’re going to the arms of a loved one.”

— Tom Althouse

22. “Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.”

— Tom Althouse

23. “We live on a world where if you run straight away, without turning, you return to your point of origin. So much energy can be saved and time, by dealing with the point, at its origin, that would make us run.”

— Tom Althouse

24. “Dreams are a luxury of the human condition.”

— Tom Althouse

25. “You are the water that flows freely, the most dynamic force on the planet with the ability to change course and outlook at any time. You can be a raging river or a placid pond. A source of nourishment, or a breaker of walls. Part of an ocean or a solitary drop. You are dynamic, you are beauty, you are life.”

— Tom Althouse

26. “So if you are what you eat and you are as young as you feel, then I am a pizza, right out of the oven.”

— Tom Althouse

27. “From the fires of persecution, can come sparks of light.”

— Tom Althouse

28. “To be honest and real makes us vulnerable, but it also makes us honest and real.”

— Tom Althouse

29. “Not all who demand your attention desire your happiness, many merely seeking a conveyance to their own. It is entirely easy when wrapped up with the petty to miss what is possible and what rows your ship to worthwhile dreams. But when two or more fall together to share the oars of what might be, dreams may find them in equal measure and as fast as the wake made.”

— Tom Althouse

30. “There are three things in life... not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.”

— Tom Althouse

31. “Perseverance is the steady pathway toward prevailing.”

— Tom Althouse

32. “Genius does not need to be validated, it just needs a legal pad and a pen.”

— Tom Althouse

33. “The only thing worth conquering, is our own fears.”

— Tom Althouse

34. “I love this life and even if to be taken from me, I will love that you have yours. Cherish all life, for life is worth cherishing.”

— Tom Althouse

35. “Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen.”

— Tom Althouse

36. “As you awake from dreams may you find this one the wondrous one to awaken to.”

— Tom Althouse

37. “No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.”

— Tom Althouse

38. “We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture.”

— Tom Althouse

39. “Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.”

— Tom Althouse

40. “Doing what you love, with those you love, is an adventurous type of success. The kind that can not be taken away, often discovered by those who have had much taken away, and saw it as an opportunity to re-access their path, and reset from the crucible of shared and beneficial dreams.”

— Tom Althouse

41. “Lettuce mustard our strength, celery-brate and have bun while I scream, relish the day!”

— Tom Althouse

42. “There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.”

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43. “Pause, breathe, and lift, undefined, what is possible. Let the feeling of celebration come upon you, even if you do not comprehend cerebral reasons to justify it. For from that center, it will generate its own, able to carry you, until the original ones manifest, from that very portal you chose to fashion, unrestricted.”

— Tom Althouse