Quotes to inspire and reflect

Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

There's no secret about success.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

One is very crazy when in love.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

Yet ah why should they know their fate since sorrow never comes too late, and happiness too swiftly flies.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty mile J.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

People can have the Model T in any color--so long as it's black.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.