Quotes to inspire and reflect

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Through me you pass into the city of woe through me you pass into eternal pain through me among the people lost for aye.

'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart.

Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The book you don't read can’t help.

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.