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Motivational Consumption Quotes

May these quotes about Consumption inspire and motivate you.

Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous


 

Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain

True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver

A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann

We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau

I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson

The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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