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

The reason why men do not obey us,

is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The greatest delight which the fields

and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

The civilized man has built a coach,

but has lost the use of his feet.

In art, the hand can never execute anything

higher than the heart can imagine.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body;

in the evening,

only with his legs.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,

and to serve them one's self?

The best effort of a fine person is

felt after we have left their presence.

Speak the truth,

and all things alive or brute are vouchers,

and the very roots of the grass underground there,

do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The fox has many tricks.

The hedgehog has but one.

But that is the best of all.

Fear defeats more people than

any other one thing in the world.

I hate quotations.

Tell me what you know.

Little minds have little worries,

big minds have no time for worries.

We do not yet possess ourselves,

and we know at the same time that we are much more.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Wisdom has its root in goodness,

not goodness its root in wisdom.

Every experiment,

by multitudes or by individuals,

that has a sensual and selfish aim,

will fail.

We are rich only through what we give,

and poor only through what we refuse.

One must be an inventor to read well.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.