Quotes | Most Inspiring and Motivational Quotes

"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Genius, Action, Man, Mind

23

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Love, Heart, Infinite

57

"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Art, History, Religion, Humanity

16

"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling."

"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Death, Feeling

25

"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness."

"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Relationship, Courtesy, Selfishness

21

"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."

"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Conscience,

59

"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

God, Clouds

20

"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Beauty, Children, Loss, Woman

17

"Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy."

"Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Man, Men, Despair, Ecstasy, Spirits

31

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Positive, Being, Infinite, Poor

22

"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Race,

26

"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."

"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Relationship, Husbdifference, Lady, Lies, Night

15

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Crime, Fortune, Lies

30

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Equality, Power, Earth, Fact

49

"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."

"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Existence, Man, Vocation

46

"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."

"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Chance,

47

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Man, Open, Sea, Woman

15

"A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

"A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Life, Mother, Now

18

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Happiness, Mother, Future, Memories

63

"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Family, Mother

64

"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."

"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Man, Poor, Woman

19

"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."

"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Relationship, Husbfirst

41

"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists."

"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Business, Artists, Force

19

"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."

"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Relationship, Husbfirst, Night, Sleep

52

"A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity."

"A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Emotional, Words

18

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Beauty, Talent, Promise, Woman

17

"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity."

"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Love, May

43

"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."

"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Marriage, Familiarity

46

"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love."

"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Love, Men, Constancy, Pain

24

"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."

"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Society, Hypocrisy, Manners, Nation

48

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Society, Bureaucracy

23

"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."

"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Love, Hatred

44

"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Emotional, Excess, Joy, Sorrow

40

"Love is the poetry of the senses."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Love, Poetry, Senses

22

"Love is a game in which one always cheats."

"Love is a game in which one always cheats."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Love,

45

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Love, Heart, Instinct, Nothing

16

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Law, Flies, Laws

16

"It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft."

"It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Family, Father, Man, Succeed

55

"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants."

"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Emotional, Calculations, Giants, Man, Race

50

"Finance, like time, devours its own children."

"Finance, like time, devours its own children."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Finance, Time, Children

47

"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."

"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Relationship, Lovers, Nothing, Word

63

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Act, Fashion, Joy, Motherhood

17

"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."

"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Love, Time, Complaint, First

17

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Love, End

45

"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."

"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Nature, Men, Ideas, Cure

23

"If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life."

"If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Life, Direction, Enemies, Spring

17

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Art, Eye

65

"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Emotional, Pearls, Pleasure

17

"It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music."

"It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Love, Music, Time, Man

40

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Time, Husbday, Pretty, Reason

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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

23

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

57

"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

16

"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling."

25

"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness."

21

"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."

59

"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

20

"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

17

"Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy."

31

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

22

"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

26

"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."

15

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

30

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

49

"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."

46

"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."

47

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

15

"A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

18

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

63

"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

64

"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."

19

"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."

41

"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists."

19

"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."

52

"A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity."

18

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

17

"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity."

43

"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."

46

"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love."

24

"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."

48

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

23

"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."

44

"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

40

"Love is the poetry of the senses."

22

"Love is a game in which one always cheats."

45

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."

16

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

16

"It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft."

55

"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants."

50

"Finance, like time, devours its own children."