10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,

and urge doing.

I am content with knowing,

if only I could know.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you,

speak the very truth,

as your life and conscience teach it,

and cheer the waiting,

fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

The man of genius inspires us

with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The intuition of the moral sentiment

is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.

These laws execute themselves.

They are out of time, out of space,

and not subject to circumstance.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Society is always taken by surprise

at any new example of common sense.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Every artist was first an amateur.

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.

With the past,

I have nothing to do;

nor with the future.

I live now.

Manners require time,

and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

A man builds a fine house;

and now he has a master,

and a task for life: he is to furnish,

watch, show it,

and keep it in repair,

the rest of his days.

As a cure for worrying,

work is better than whiskey.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Nature is the incarnation of thought.

The world is the mind precipitated.

In all my lectures,

I have taught one doctrine,

namely,

the infinitude of the private man.