SimplyNeo Quotes

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.