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

Men love to wonder,

and that is the seed of science.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Only as far as the masters of the world

have called in nature to their aid,

can they reach the height of magnificence.

This is the meaning of their hanging

gardens, villas, houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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

Fate is nothing but the deeds,

committed in a prior state of existence.

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.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Society is always taken by surprise

at any new example of common sense.

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.

In every society some,

men are born to rule,

and some to advise.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

A great part of courage is

the courage of having done the thing before.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Trust your instinct to the end,

though you can render no reason.

The secret of ugliness

consists not in irregularity,

but in being uninteresting.

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.