Motivational

Be a voice not an echo.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.