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

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty without expression is boring.

It is a fact often observed,

that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion,

who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon,

and every line of his writing,

deserves reading,

as it is the sense of France.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

As we are, so we associate.

The good, by affinity,

seek the good;

the vile, by affinity, the vile.

Thus of their own volition,

souls proceed into Heaven,

into Hell.

Men love to wonder,

and that is the seed of science.

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.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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.

No change of circumstances

can repair a defect of character.

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.