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Henry Ward Beecher: Troubles are often...

Henry Ward Beecher: Troubles are often...

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every man is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every man is...

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. . . . He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Great geniuses have...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Great geniuses have...

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Source: Representative Men, Plato;...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If the stars...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If the stars...

If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: He has not...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: He has not...

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Imitation is suicide....

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Imitation is suicide....

Imitation is suicide.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Knowledge exists to...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Knowledge exists to...

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nothing is beneath...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nothing is beneath...

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Source: In The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: To exercise power...

Friedrich Nietzsche: To exercise power...

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are...

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Mahatma Gandhi: An eye for...

Mahatma Gandhi: An eye for...

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Doug Horton: If you love...

Doug Horton: If you love...

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it...

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Doug Horton: Thought precedes action,...

Doug Horton: Thought precedes action,...

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Source: In The...

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Doug Horton: Strong words are...

Doug Horton: Strong words are...

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...

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George Eliot: I at least...

George Eliot: I at least...

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...

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George Eliot: [T]here is one...

George Eliot: [T]here is one...

[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very...

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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Source: (Bunsby)...

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Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!

Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...

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