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

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.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.

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.

There was never a child so lovely

but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Every actual State is corrupt.

Good men must not obey laws too well.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

I always feel that until you take your last breath,

you're always growing.

When you're the most successful person in your family,

in your neighborhood,

and in your town,

everybody thinks you're the First National Bank,

and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.