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

O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught.

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.

One must be an inventor to read well.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

The world is all gates,

all opportunities,

strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Nothing astonishes men

so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth.

It makes all things alive and significant.

This time,

like all times,

is a very good one,

if we but know what to do with it.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us

to be what we know we could be.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

If the stars should appear but one

night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Make the most of yourself,

for that is all there is of you.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

There was never a child so lovely

but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,

'always do what you are afraid to do.'

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

A friend may well be reckoned

the masterpiece of nature.