Quotes by Poets - Page 58

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?
J. C. F. von Schiller
Let us live while we are alive!
Johann von Goethe
The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
Don Marquis
Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.
Carl Sandburg
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
Owen Meredith
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann von Goethe
The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.
Erich Kästner
An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In everything one must consider the end.
Jean de La Fontaine
Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.
Harry Kemp
A useless life is an early death.
Johann von Goethe
To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!
Henrik Ibsen
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.
Rabindranath Tagore
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.
Thomas Hardy
He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.
Alexander Pope
Man proposes and God disposes.
Ariosto
God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A God-intoxicated man.
Novalis
Nearer my God to Thee - Nearer to Thee - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me Still all my song shall be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee!
Sarah Flower Adams
A picket frozen on duty - A mother starved for her brood - Socrates drinking the hemlock And Jesus on the rood And millions who humble and nameless The straight hard pathway trod - Some call it Consecration And others call it God.
W. H. Carruth
I took a day to search for God And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge through woods untamed Just where one scarlet lily flamed I saw His foot print in the sod.
Bliss Carman
Everyone is in a small way the image of God.
Marcus Manilius
Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord.
Julia Ward Howe
One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.
Francis Quarles
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.
Sir Walter Scott
The test of any man lies in action.
Pindar
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
Helen Hunt Jackson
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.
Audre Lorde
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
What you theoretically know vividly realize.
Francis Thompson
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
Johann von Goethe
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
William Ellery Channing
Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.
John Milton
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.
Christina Rossetti
Men expect too much do too little.
Allen Tate
Act-act in the living present!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.
Margaret Widdemer
The only menace is inertia.
Saint John Perse
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
William Gilmore Simms
That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann von Goethe
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Robert Louis Stevenson