Motivational and Inspirational Quotes Collection
Welcome
to my collection of inspirational and motivational quotations.
Reading and collecting books of quotations is one of
my hobbies. Whenever I'm feeling down or have a looming
personal problem, I turn to my books for some inspiration
and words of wisdom.
The quotes in each of the categories listed below
are some of my personal favorites that I've collected
over the years. I hope you enjoy them as much as
I do.
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The
maxims of men disclose their hearts. - French
Proverb |
Other Topics
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Teachers
- books, reading, education, history, writers
and writing.
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Library
- quotes and proverbs about libraries, librarians,
and book collections
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On the subject of quotes and proverbs.....
One
must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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I
am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
- Sir Henry Wotton |
Stealing
someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment
of eating your own.
Peter Anderson
A
short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
It
often happens that the quotations constitute the
most valuable part of a book.
Vicesimus Knox
A
collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than
a cabinet of intellectual gems.
William B. Sprague
Brevity
is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Good
sayings are like pearls strung together.
Chinese Proverb
A
proverb is to speech what salt is to food.
Arabic Proverb
Better
one line that will survive the author than a hundred
books outlived.
Anonymous
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 good maxim is never out of season.
English Proverb
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
Why
aren't more gems from our great authors scattered
over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's
reach.
S. T. Coleridge
Nothing
gives an author so much pleasure as to find his
works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Benjamin Franklin
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar
Gracián
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
Know
the great men of your age.
Baltasar
Gracián
A
thing is never too often repeated which is never
sufficiently learned.
Seneca
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
The
diamond may adorn royalty, regardless of personal
worth; but jewels of thought render even poverty
illustrious and sublime.
Gems
for the Fireside
There
is only one categorical imperative: Act only according
to that maxim by which you can at the same time
will that it should become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
A
proverb is much light condensed in one flash.
Simmons
Human
success is a quotation from overhead.
Charles H. Parkhurst
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous
application of an passage as in being the author
of it.
St. Evremond
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
Few maxims are true from every point of view.
Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue
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
Maxims
are the condensed good sense of nations.
Sir J. Mackintosh
A
proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty.
Erasmus
Many
ideas grow better when transplanted into another
mind, than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver
Wendell Holmes
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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When
I quote others I do so in order to express my
own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne |
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