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

We are symbols,

and inhabit symbols.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old,

but of the natural.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Flowers... are a proud assertion

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

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

Words are also actions,

and actions are a kind of words.

Beauty is an outward gift,

which is seldom despised,

except by those to whom,

it has been refused.

It is one of the blessings of old friends,

that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Doing well is the result of doing good.

That's what capitalism is all about.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding

that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

Every day,

you're only as good as your last show.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.

Do not hit at all if it can be avoided;

but never hit softly.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action,

and we have trusted only to rhetoric.

If we are really to be a great nation,

we must not merely talk;

we must act big.

The reactionary is always willing to take

a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

is morally treasonable to the American public.

Speak softly and carry a big stick;

you will go far.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship

I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.