Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The book you don't read won't help.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Books - reading

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Disney, Walt

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Neruda, Pablo

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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Traherne, Thomas

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.