Inspirational Quotes
Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
~John Milton
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
~Menander
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart.
~William Hazlitt
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
~John Tillotson
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
~Catherine the Great
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~Charles Dickens
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
~Alexander Chase
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
~Homer
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
~Edward Young
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
~Confucius
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
~Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
“Leave no stone unturned.”
~Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you would create something,
you must be something.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
~Horace Bushnell
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
~W. C. Doane
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
~George Eliot
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
~Thomas Carlyle
Let thy words be few.
~Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
~Leon J. Suenes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~John Muir
First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
~Epictetus
