Quotes to inspire and reflect

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

The only way round is through.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

If you seek yourself...you rob the lens of its transparency....

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . .

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. G. K.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. G. K.

An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high but oh More horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2.

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry the best words in the best order.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Man, needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual--and the soul of a people.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Come to the edge He said. They said We are afraid. Come to the edge He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew...

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.