Quotes to inspire and reflect

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

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

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

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

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

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

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

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.