15 Quotes that Should Make You Think

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The essence of quotations is not just for someone to sound punchy and wise. The essence of quotations is for you the reader to peer into the mind of the creator of the quote, to be inspired into a path of excellence and take up the challenge of self and people development. Take some of these quotes. Think on them, internalize and make them part of your life. Also, you should put them on post cards, cardboards, t-shirts, sticky notes. Be creative with them and you can also use them in your conversations and speeches.

1. He has done nothing who has known nothing –Thomas Carlyle
2. The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upwards in the night – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to go nowhere –Carl Sandburg
4. First, say to yourself what you want to be; and then do what you have to do –Epictetus
5. A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and a few to be chewed and digested –Francis Bacon
7. Things (and people) are beautiful if you love them –Jean Anouilh
8. Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his image – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. It is the bold who every time does best, whether at home or abroad –Homer
10. He who is contented is rich –Lao-tze
11. When character is right, looks are a greater delight – Publius Ovidius Naso
12. Charity begins at home, but should not end there –Thomas Fuller
13. Minds are conquered not by arms but by loves and magnanimity – Benedict de Spinoza
14. Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together –Joseph Joubert
15. He who neglects to drink the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance –Ling Po