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

Happy is the hearing man;

unhappy the speaking man.

What we seek we shall find;

what we flee from flees from us.

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.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

In every society some,

men are born to rule,

and some to advise.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

As a cure for worrying,

work is better than whiskey.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life

that no one can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself.

It is the quality of the moment,

not the number of days,

or events,

or of actors,

that imports.

Every man has his own courage,

and is betrayed because he seeks in himself

the courage of other persons.

Every experiment,

by multitudes or by individuals,

that has a sensual and selfish aim,

will fail.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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.

If the tongue had not been

framed for articulation,

man would still be a beast in the forest.

Trust men and they will be true to you;

treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Bad times have a scientific value.

These are occasions a good,

learner would not miss.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,

but he is brave five minutes longer.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

You cannot do a kindness too soon,

for you never know how soon it will be too late.