Quotes to Get Motivated · Page 8
High-energy words to get you off the couch and into action.
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“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
“My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one.”
“Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully.”
“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.”
“Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations—many rare combinations.”
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
“With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”
“I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong.”
“There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ.”
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone and never must return!”
“He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”
“Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters.”
“Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed.”
“The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied.”
“It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it."”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“I am an unauthorized poet who influences by means of the ideas.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”