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

Society is always taken by surprise

at any new example of common sense.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The method of nature

who could ever analyze it?

Build a better mousetrap

and the world will beat a path to your door.

Every spirit makes its house,

and we can give a shrewd guess,

from the house to the inhabitant.

If a man can...

make a better mousetrap,

the world will make a beaten,

path to his door.

As long as a man stands in his own way,

everything seems to be in his way.

O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart

into his work and done his best;

but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The vegetable life does not content

itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed,

but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that,

if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves,

that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;

that, at least one may replace the parent.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

All life is an experiment.

Judge of your natural character

by what you do in your dreams.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth,

and the most serious occupation of manhood.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world

is also a confession of character.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Each age,

it is found,

must write its own books;

or rather,

each generation for the next succeeding.

Nothing astonishes men

so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The end of the human race

will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

I always feel that until you take your last breath,

you're always growing.