Inspirational and
Motivational Quotes
Here I share with you the inspirational and
motivational quotes that I hold close to my heart. These help
me when the going gets tough and life looks bleak.
These are a reflection of the best of human
thought and spirit.
I hope they help you achieve the success and
happiness that is the true essence of being human.
On the subject of quotes .....
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas
more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. -
Amos Bronson Alcott
The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - French
Proverb
To select well among old things, is almost equal to
inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles
Trublet
I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing
but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de
Montaigne
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts
of the mind. - William R. Alger
What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art,
or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought
to the cultivated and the thinking. - Oliver Wendell
Holmes
Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the
embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter
Anderson
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of
the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell
Lowell
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. -
Arabic Proverb
Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. -
Unknown
There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying
rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first
author of that book. - Pierre Boyle
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important
and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all
excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the
will. - Joseph Joubert
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of
the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to
what glorious height we have at last reached. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as
fresh today as when they first passed through their authors'
minds ages ago. - Samuel Smiles
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. -
Joseph Joubert
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the
minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has
been educated during all this time. - Bernard de Bovier
de Fontenelle
A proverb is the child of experience. - Old
Saying
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. -
Sir J. Mackintosh
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for
the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote,
of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your
own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your
children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a
casket of jewels for your housebold. - Tryon
Edwards
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