Motivational Quotes

America is another name for opportunity.

Let us be silent,

that we may hear,.

the whispers of the gods

A man is a god in ruins.

When men are innocent,

life shall be longer,

and shall pass into the immortal,

as gently as we awake from dreams.

Every man supposes himself

not to be fully understood or appreciated.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Philosophically considered,

the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us,

all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is,

both nature and art,

all other men and my own body,

must be ranked under this name,

Nature.

Flowers... are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

Every artist was first an amateur.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.

He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul.

Drawn by its severe harmony,

ravished with its beauty,

he lived in it and had his being there.

Alone in all history,

he estimated the greatness of man.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

A great part of courage is

the courage of having done the thing before.

With the past,

I have nothing to do;

nor with the future.

I live now.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Manners require time,

and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Words are also actions,

and actions are a kind of words.

No change of circumstances

can repair a defect of character.

America is a poem in our eyes;

its ample geography dazzles the imagination,

and it will not wait long for metres.