Motivational Quotes

It is art that makes life,

makes interest,

makes importance… gives pleasure,

and gives meaning.

The only obligation we have is to do what we love.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Three things in human life are important:

the first is to be kind;

the second is to be kind;

and the third is to be kind.

When we honestly ask ourselves

which person in our lives means the most to us,

we often find it is those who,

instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,

have chosen rather to share our pain

and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Community is a sign that love is possible in a broken world.

The great illusion is that we are what we own.

Joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

My wife dresses to kill.

She cooks the same way.

I once wanted to become an atheist,

but I gave up — they have no holidays.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places.

He told me to quit going to those places.

Take my wife… please.

America was not built on fear.

America was built on courage,

on imagination,

and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

It’s amazing what you can accomplish

if you do not care who gets the credit.

The buck stops here.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more

if only they knew they were slaves.

I had reasoned this out in my mind;

there was one of two things I had a right to,

liberty or death.

I never ran my train off the track,

and I never lost a passenger.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions

but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Power and violence are opposites;

where the one rules absolutely,

the other is absent.